Where is this stuff documented?

[geajack]

Hi, I'm loving this tutorial! But I find myself wondering how I could have figured any of this out without a tutorial. Where did you get all this information? I mean things about the fundamental protocols you have to keep to to run code on the Pi 4. Like that the file has to be called kernel8.img, how the SD card has to be formatted, or like the actual format that the .img file should have (i.e. how to put the linker script together, the correct objcopy commands, etc).

Is this stuff even documented officially anywhere? All I can find are forum posts linking to more forum posts with shreds of information.

[babbleberry]

Hi,

I'm afraid much of this tutorial is pieced together from the official Raspberry Pi/ARM documentation (linked from the tutorial text) or indeed from many forum/blog posts I found along the way. The tutorial actually started because I needed to record all the information I was finding out so I didn't lose track of why I made certain decisions. It was a product of a lot of Google searches!

Sorry that the answer isn't a more pleasant one!

Adam