On 3/28/22 04:43, Bin Meng wrote:
At present the doc only mentions Arm, PowerPC and x86. RISC-V support has been added since VxWorks SR0650 support for a while, and U-Boot supports loading a RISC-V VxWorks kernel too. Let's document it.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng bmeng.cn@gmail.com
doc/usage/os/vxworks.rst | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/usage/os/vxworks.rst b/doc/usage/os/vxworks.rst index e696c639b2..e732f711fb 100644 --- a/doc/usage/os/vxworks.rst +++ b/doc/usage/os/vxworks.rst @@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ Status U-Boot supports loading VxWorks kernels via 'bootvx' and 'bootm' commands. For booting old kernels (6.9.x) on PowerPC and ARM, and all kernel versions on other architectures, 'bootvx' shall be used. For booting VxWorks 7 kernels
A man-page for bootvx might be useful.
-on PowerPC and ARM, 'bootm' shall be used. +on PowerPC/ARM/RISC-V, 'bootm' shall be used.
With CONFIG_EFI_LOADER option, it's possible to chain load a VxWorks x86 kernel via the UEFI boot loader application for VxWorks loaded by 'bootefi' command.
-VxWorks 7 on PowerPC and ARM
+VxWorks 7 on PowerPC/ARM/RISC-V +------------------------------- From VxWorks 7, VxWorks starts adopting device tree as its hardware description mechanism (for PowerPC and ARM), thus requiring boot interface changes. This section will describe the new interface. @@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ For ARM, the calling convention is shown below:: When using the Linux compatible standard DTB, the calling convention of VxWorks entry point is exactly the same as the Linux kernel.
+For RISC-V, there is no legacy bootm flow as VxWorks always uses the same boot +interface as the Linux kernel, with the calling convention below::
Nits: .. code-block:: C
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk@gmx.de
- void (*kernel_entry)(unsigned long hartid, void *fdt_addr)
- When booting a VxWorks 7 kernel (uImage format), the parameters passed to bootm is like below::