From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Chester Lin <clin@suse.com>
Cc: "aou@eecs.berkeley.edu" <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv-docs: correct the sequence of the magic number 2 since it's little endian
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 07:22:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191001072212.21d55899@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190916130108.31404-1-clin@suse.com>
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:01:40 +0000
Chester Lin <clin@suse.com> wrote:
> Correct the sequence of the magic number 2 since it's little endian.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chester Lin <clin@suse.com>
> ---
> Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
So I'm slowly digging my way through my docs folder, sorry for the delay.
> diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
> index 14b1492f689b..f388805aa5c3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The following 64-byte header is present in decompressed Linux kernel image.
> u32 res1 = 0; /* Reserved */
> u64 res2 = 0; /* Reserved */
> u64 magic = 0x5643534952; /* Magic number, little endian, "RISCV" */
> - u32 magic2 = 0x56534905; /* Magic number 2, little endian, "RSC\x05" */
> + u32 magic2 = 0x05435352; /* Magic number 2, little endian, "RSC\x05" */
That's doing more than just reordering the bytes. Was the original
completely wrong? If so, the changelog should probably reflect that. Or
else what am I missing?
Thanks,
jon
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-16 13:01 [PATCH] riscv-docs: correct the sequence of the magic number 2 since it's little endian Chester Lin
2019-10-01 13:22 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2019-10-01 18:35 ` Paul Walmsley
2019-10-03 16:52 ` Jonathan Corbet
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