From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 08:45:26 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] ARMv8: add optional Linux kernel image header In-Reply-To: <20180102235422.2866-1-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> References: <20180102235422.2866-1-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <20180103134526.GS31350@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 04:54:21PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > From: Stephen Warren > > Allow placing a Linux kernel image header at the start of the U-Boot > binary. This is useful since the image header reports the amount of memory > (BSS and similar) that U-Boot needs to use, but that isn't part of the > binary size. This can be used by the code that loads U-Boot into memory to > determine where to load U-Boot, based on other users of memory. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren > --- > This series relies (at the very least for diff context) on the previous > series I sent Dec 19: ARM: tegra: don't use CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE when no > SPL ... ARM: tegra: use CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_BSS_OFFSET. Neat. Are the Linux folks encouraging other projects to re-use this header? Is there somewhere we can point to as reference for the format for the Kconfig help as well, not just the text? Thanks! -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: