Re: [PATCH v1 3/6] xen/riscv: add zImage kernel loading support

[Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>]

On 2/17/26 2:02 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 17.02.2026 12:58, Oleksii Kurochko wrote:
>> On 2/16/26 5:31 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 12.02.2026 17:21, Oleksii Kurochko wrote:
>>>> Introduce support for loading a Linux zImage kernel on RISC-V.
>>> Before I look here in any detail - where would a zImage come from? I can't
>>> spot any support for it in Linux'es arch/riscv/Makefile (whereas
>>> arch/arm/Makefile has such).
>> Good point.
>>
>> It is something that should be renamed as not Arm64 (Arm32 really has such
>> target), not RISC-V doesn't really work with zImage. They are using Image plus
>> Image.gz as compressed image.
>>
>> Maybe it would be better to rename kernel_zimage_probe() to something more
>> generic kernel_image_probe().
> Well, it's two things. In the description you explicitly say zImage. That's
> simply misleading.

Agree, it should be just Image, I'll update that part of commit description
in the next version.

>   Renaming the function (if indeed it copes with more than
> just zImage) would likely be a good thing too, but needs sorting with its
> maintainers.

I will suggest that then in a separate patch.

~ Oleksii