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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h index 033ab79516..f6a64ce2c9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h @@ -9,4 +9,20 @@ void bootm_announce_and_cleanup(void); +/** + * boot_linux_kernel() - boot a linux kernel + * + * This boots a kernel image, either 32-bit or 64-bit. It will also work with + * a self-extracting kernel, if you set @image_64bit to false. + * + * @setup_base: Pointer to the setup.bin information for the kernel + * @load_address: Pointer to the start of the kernel image + * @image_64bit: true if the image is a raw 64-bit kernel, false if it + * is raw 32-bit or any type of self-extracting kernel + * such as a bzImage. + * @return -ve error code. This function does not return if the kernel was + * booted successfully. + */ +int boot_linux_kernel(ulong setup_base, ulong load_address, bool image_64bit); + #endif |
