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+Taken from list archive at http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2001-July/004064.html
+
+Initial definitions
+-------------------
+
+The following symbol definitions rely on you knowing the translation that
+__virt_to_phys() does for your machine. This macro converts the passed
+virtual address to a physical address. Normally, it is simply:
+
+ phys = virt - PAGE_OFFSET + PHYS_OFFSET
+
+
+Decompressor Symbols
+--------------------
+
+ZTEXTADDR
+ Start address of decompressor. There's no point in talking about
+ virtual or physical addresses here, since the MMU will be off at
+ the time when you call the decompressor code. You normally call
+ the kernel at this address to start it booting. This doesn't have
+ to be located in RAM, it can be in flash or other read-only or
+ read-write addressable medium.
+
+ZBSSADDR
+ Start address of zero-initialised work area for the decompressor.
+ This must be pointing at RAM. The decompressor will zero initialise
+ this for you. Again, the MMU will be off.
+
+ZRELADDR
+ This is the address where the decompressed kernel will be written,
+ and eventually executed. The following constraint must be valid:
+
+ __virt_to_phys(TEXTADDR) == ZRELADDR
+
+ The initial part of the kernel is carefully coded to be position
+ independent.
+
+INITRD_PHYS
+ Physical address to place the initial RAM disk. Only relevant if
+ you are using the bootpImage stuff (which only works on the old
+ struct param_struct).
+
+INITRD_VIRT
+ Virtual address of the initial RAM disk. The following constraint
+ must be valid:
+
+ __virt_to_phys(INITRD_VIRT) == INITRD_PHYS
+
+PARAMS_PHYS
+ Physical address of the struct param_struct or tag list, giving the
+ kernel various parameters about its execution environment.
+
+
+Kernel Symbols
+--------------
+
+PHYS_OFFSET
+ Physical start address of the first bank of RAM.
+
+PAGE_OFFSET
+ Virtual start address of the first bank of RAM. During the kernel
+ boot phase, virtual address PAGE_OFFSET will be mapped to physical
+ address PHYS_OFFSET, along with any other mappings you supply.
+ This should be the same value as TASK_SIZE.
+
+TASK_SIZE
+ The maximum size of a user process in bytes. Since user space
+ always starts at zero, this is the maximum address that a user
+ process can access+1. The user space stack grows down from this
+ address.
+
+ Any virtual address below TASK_SIZE is deemed to be user process
+ area, and therefore managed dynamically on a process by process
+ basis by the kernel. I'll call this the user segment.
+
+ Anything above TASK_SIZE is common to all processes. I'll call
+ this the kernel segment.
+
+ (In other words, you can't put IO mappings below TASK_SIZE, and
+ hence PAGE_OFFSET).
+
+TEXTADDR
+ Virtual start address of kernel, normally PAGE_OFFSET + 0x8000.
+ This is where the kernel image ends up. With the latest kernels,
+ it must be located at 32768 bytes into a 128MB region. Previous
+ kernels placed a restriction of 256MB here.
+
+DATAADDR
+ Virtual address for the kernel data segment. Must not be defined
+ when using the decompressor.
+
+VMALLOC_START
+VMALLOC_END
+ Virtual addresses bounding the vmalloc() area. There must not be
+ any static mappings in this area; vmalloc will overwrite them.
+ The addresses must also be in the kernel segment (see above).
+ Normally, the vmalloc() area starts VMALLOC_OFFSET bytes above the
+ last virtual RAM address (found using variable high_memory).
+
+VMALLOC_OFFSET
+ Offset normally incorporated into VMALLOC_START to provide a hole
+ between virtual RAM and the vmalloc area. We do this to allow
+ out of bounds memory accesses (eg, something writing off the end
+ of the mapped memory map) to be caught. Normally set to 8MB.
+
+Architecture Specific Macros
+----------------------------
+
+BOOT_MEM(pram,pio,vio)
+ `pram' specifies the physical start address of RAM. Must always
+ be present, and should be the same as PHYS_OFFSET.
+
+ `pio' is the physical address of an 8MB region containing IO for
+ use with the debugging macros in arch/arm/kernel/debug-armv.S.
+
+ `vio' is the virtual address of the 8MB debugging region.
+
+ It is expected that the debugging region will be re-initialised
+ by the architecture specific code later in the code (via the
+ MAPIO function).
+
+BOOT_PARAMS
+ Same as, and see PARAMS_PHYS.
+
+FIXUP(func)
+ Machine specific fixups, run before memory subsystems have been
+ initialised.
+
+MAPIO(func)
+ Machine specific function to map IO areas (including the debug
+ region above).
+
+INITIRQ(func)
+ Machine specific function to initialise interrupts.
+
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