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docs: Document parameters passed to firmware and alignment requirement

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This updates documentation to describe parameters passed to firmware
from previous booting stage, and corresponding address alignment
requirement.

This also fixes a typo in fw_dynamic.md (it's => its).

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
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Bin Meng
2021-07-10 22:28:21 +08:00
committed by Anup Patel
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@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ OpenSBI generic library code. The supported firmwares type will differ in how
the arguments passed by the platform early boot stage are handled, as well as
how the boot stage following the firmware will be handled and executed.
The previous booting stage will pass information via the following registers
of RISC-V CPU:
* hartid via *a0* register
* device tree blob address in memory via *a1* register. The address must
be aligned to 8 bytes.
OpenSBI currently supports three different types of firmwares.
Firmware with Dynamic Information (*FW_DYNAMIC*)