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From: marex@denx.de (Marek Vasut)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: AArch64 kernel image decompression
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:51:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201401141351.18988.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4250104.UfkPP3heXI@wuerfel>

On Monday, January 13, 2014 at 12:42:41 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 13 January 2014 11:29:20 bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com wrote:
> > With the u-boot bootloader also having AArch64 support now (see [1]), it
> > would make sense to add the uImage and decompressor support to the
> > AArch64 Makefile in Linux kernel as well, so that u-boot can also boot
> > uImages for AArch64 systems out-off-box.
> > 
> > [1].
> > http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-arm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/aarc
> > h64
> 
> u-boot should never have to use a uImage on arm64, since it already
> supports booting a vmlinux file.

Just a side-note. The benefit of uImage (resp. please use fitImage, as it's more 
modern) is that it is protected by checksum against possible corruption. 
Besides, U-Boot can do the decompression of uImage payload, so there's no need 
to have decompressor in arm64 kernel.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-14 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-10 17:04 AArch64 kernel image decompression Josh Cartwright
2014-01-13 11:17 ` Will Deacon
2014-01-13 11:29   ` bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com
2014-01-13 11:42     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-01-14  3:52       ` bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com
2014-01-14  5:19         ` Olof Johansson
2014-01-14  6:14           ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-01-14 10:59             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-14 16:48             ` Stephen Warren
2014-01-14 12:51       ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2014-01-14 13:38         ` bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com
2014-01-14 13:47           ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-01-14 17:19             ` Olof Johansson
2014-01-14 18:53               ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-01-15  4:37                 ` Olof Johansson
2014-01-13 22:10   ` Josh Cartwright

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