From: geoff@infradead.org (Geoff Levand)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] arm64: export effective Image size to bootloaders
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 11:07:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1403201268.17030.59.camel@smoke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140619102526.GA22217@leverpostej>
Hi Mark,
On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 11:25 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> I disagree that the bootloader _must_ have to deal with the endianness
> of the kernel. If the user knows the endianness of the kernel and
> provides a filesystem of the appropriate endianness, I don't see why the
> bootloader should have to do anything differently. In most cases the
> bootloader has no need to care.
As I mentioned, I don't really care how this is fixed, but there will be
bootloaders built as both big and little endian (kexec based ones for
example), and so no matter what, bootloaders will need to deal with
converting values.
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-19 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-16 9:50 [PATCH 0/4] arm64: simplify restrictions on bootloaders Mark Rutland
2014-05-16 9:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] arm64: head.S: remove unnecessary function alignment Mark Rutland
2014-05-16 13:04 ` Christopher Covington
2014-05-20 16:20 ` Laura Abbott
2014-05-16 9:50 ` [PATCH 2/4] arm64: place initial page tables above the kernel Mark Rutland
2014-05-20 16:21 ` Laura Abbott
2014-05-16 9:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] arm64: export effective Image size to bootloaders Mark Rutland
2014-05-20 14:12 ` Tom Rini
2014-05-20 16:22 ` Laura Abbott
2014-06-16 20:27 ` Geoff Levand
2014-06-18 16:49 ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-18 18:27 ` Rob Herring
2014-06-18 18:41 ` Geoff Levand
2014-06-19 10:25 ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-19 18:07 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2014-06-20 10:17 ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-18 18:56 ` Kevin Hilman
2014-06-18 23:03 ` [PATCH] arm64: Add byte order to image header Geoff Levand
2014-06-18 23:07 ` [PATCH] arm64: Add new file asm/image.h Geoff Levand
2014-05-16 9:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] arm64: Enable TEXT_OFFSET fuzzing Mark Rutland
2014-05-16 14:06 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-16 16:55 ` Mark Rutland
2014-05-20 14:11 ` Tom Rini
2014-05-20 16:08 ` Mark Rutland
2014-05-21 10:18 ` Mark Rutland
2014-05-20 11:31 ` [PATCH 0/4] arm64: simplify restrictions on bootloaders Ian Campbell
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