x86: apl: Use devicetree for FSP-M configuration

[oweals/u-boot.git] / doc / README.falcon

diff --git a/doc/README.falcon b/doc/README.falcon
index 82a254b2e2565357a97a3479246023bbc02e3dbb..713d7063a1d8cb0e8642f5540ac0e52d87ec1e58 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/README.falcon
+++ b/doc/README.falcon
@@ -31,9 +31,10 @@ informed to load it before running the kernel.
 To boot the kernel, these steps under a Falcon-aware U-Boot are required:
 
 1. Boot the board into U-Boot.
-Use the "spl export" command to generate the kernel parameters area or the DT.
-U-Boot runs as when it boots the kernel, but stops before passing the control
-to the kernel.
+After loading the desired legacy-format kernel image into memory (and DT as
+well, if used), use the "spl export" command to generate the kernel parameters
+area or the DT.  U-Boot runs as when it boots the kernel, but stops before
+passing the control to the kernel.
 
 2. Save the prepared snapshot into persistent media.
 The address where to save it must be configured into board configuration
@@ -66,6 +67,8 @@ CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SPL_KERNEL_OFFS       Offset in NAND where the kernel is stored
 
 CONFIG_CMD_SPL_NAND_OFS        Offset in NAND where the parameters area was saved.
 
+CONFIG_CMD_SPL_NOR_OFS Offset in NOR where the parameters area was saved.
+
 CONFIG_CMD_SPL_WRITE_SIZE      Size of the parameters area to be copied
 
 CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT     Activate Falcon Mode.
@@ -117,7 +120,12 @@ after each run of 'spl export'. Unfortunately the position of temporary
 storage can not be predicted nor provided at commandline, it depends
 highly on your system setup and your provided data (ATAGS or FDT).
 However at the end of an succesful 'spl export' run it will print the
-RAM address of temporary storage.
+RAM address of temporary storage. The RAM address of FDT will also be
+set in the environment variable 'fdtargsaddr', the new length of the
+prepared FDT will be set in the environment variable 'fdtargslen'.
+These environment variables can be used in scripts for writing updated
+FDT to persistent storage.
+
 Now the user have to save the generated BLOB from that printed address
 to the pre-defined address in persistent storage
 (CONFIG_CMD_SPL_NAND_OFS in case of NAND).