From: panand@redhat.com (Pratyush Anand)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: arm64 boot requirements
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 18:20:21 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151201125021.GB5704@dhcppc13.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151201110159.GA4757@leverpostej>
On 01/12/2015:11:02:55 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Pratyush, Geoff, I understood you were loading the kernel vmlinux for
> kexec. Do you parse the Image header to figure out where to place
> things?
Yes, ARM64 kexec-tools supports both elf and binary image loading and in both
the cases text_offset and image_size is calculated from image header. Location
for other segments like initrd or DTB are calculatd accordingly [1]
~Pratyush
[1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/kexec-tools.git/tree/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c#n585
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-01 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-30 1:45 arm64 boot requirements Carl van Schaik
2015-12-01 11:02 ` Mark Rutland
2015-12-01 11:52 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-12-01 22:09 ` Christopher Covington
2015-12-02 10:26 ` Mark Rutland
2015-12-02 13:46 ` Carl van Schaik
2015-12-03 12:24 ` Mark Rutland
2015-12-01 12:50 ` Pratyush Anand [this message]
2015-12-02 19:03 ` Geoff Levand
2015-12-03 12:29 ` Mark Rutland
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