uboot 启动Linux内核使用bootz命令。当然还有其它的启动命令,例如,bootm命令等等。
本文只分析 bootz命令启动 Linux内核的过程。
本文具体分析 bootz启动 Linux内核过程涉及的一个重要的全局变量 images。
bootm_headers_t images; /* pointers to os/initrd/fdt images */
typedef struct bootm_headers {
/*
* Legacy os image header, if it is a multi component image
* then boot_get_ramdisk() and get_fdt() will attempt to get
* data from second and third component accordingly.
*/
image_header_t *legacy_hdr_os; /* image header pointer */
image_header_t legacy_hdr_os_copy; /* header copy */
ulong legacy_hdr_valid;
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#ifndef USE_HOSTCC
image_info_t os; /* os image info */
ulong ep; /* entry point of OS */
ulong rd_start, rd_end;/* ramdisk start/end */
char *ft_addr; /* flat dev tree address */
ulong ft_len; /* length of flat device tree */
ulong initrd_start;
ulong initrd_end;
ulong cmdline_start;
ulong cmdline_end;
bd_t *kbd;
#endif
int verify; /* getenv("verify")[0] != 'n' */
#define BOOTM_STATE_START (0x00000001)
#define BOOTM_STATE_FINDOS (0x00000002)
#define BOOTM_STATE_FINDOTHER (0x00000004)
#define BOOTM_STATE_LOADOS (0x00000008)
#define BOOTM_STATE_RAMDISK (0x00000010)
#define BOOTM_STATE_FDT (0x00000020)
#define BOOTM_STATE_OS_CMDLINE (0x00000040)
#define BOOTM_STATE_OS_BD_T (0x00000080)
#define BOOTM_STATE_OS_PREP (0x00000100)
#define BOOTM_STATE_OS_FAKE_GO (0x00000200) /* 'Almost' run the OS */
#define BOOTM_STATE_OS_GO (0x00000400)
int state;
#ifdef CONFIG_LMB
struct lmb lmb; /* for memory mgmt */
#endif
} bootm_headers_t;
成员变量 ep:Linx内核镜像存放的起始地址。
typedef struct image_info {
ulong start, end; /* start/end of blob */
ulong image_start, image_len; /* start of image within blob, len of image */
ulong load; /* load addr for the image */
uint8_t comp, type, os; /* compression, type of image, os type */
uint8_t arch; /* CPU architecture */
} image_info_t;