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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>,
	"palmer@sifive.com" <palmer@sifive.com>,
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	"paul.walmsley@sifive.com" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	"linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>
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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