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diff --git a/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst b/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst index 1a95f87e77..6fa8cd911e 100644 --- a/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst +++ b/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst @@ -19,8 +19,10 @@ architecture the bootm command handles different image types. On ARM the following images are supported: * ARM Linux zImage +* ARM64 Linux Image, plain or compressed * U-Boot uImage * barebox images +* FIT images, containing a zImage or Image The images can either be passed directly to the bootm command as argument or in the ``global.bootm.image`` variable: @@ -48,6 +50,14 @@ variable: global.bootm.image=/path/to/zImage bootm +FIT image configurations will be matched by comparing the ``compatible`` property +inside the configuration node with the barebox live tree's ``/compatible``. +It's also possible to select a specific configuration explicitly: + +.. code-block:: sh + + global.bootm.image=/dev/mmc0.fit@conf-imx8mm-evk.dtb + **NOTE:** it may happen that barebox is probed from the devicetree, but you have want to start a Kernel without passing a devicetree. In this case set the ``global.bootm.boot_atag`` variable to ``true``. |