From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: AArch64 kernel image decompression
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:42:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4250104.UfkPP3heXI@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69dfcb9d142443638e4ccfedd92c4f05@BN1PR03MB220.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
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/aarch64
u-boot should never have to use a uImage on arm64, since it already
supports booting a vmlinux file.
A more sensible thing to add would be vmlinux.gz support in u-boot,
if that doesn't exist already.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-13 11:42 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 [this message]
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
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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