On 09/10/2012 01:53 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
On 19:29 Sun 09 Sep , Nicolas Pitre wrote:
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
On 17:26 Fri 07 Sep , Catalin Marinas wrote:
+4. Call the kernel image
+------------------------
+
+Requirement: MANDATORY
+
+The decompressed kernel image contains a 32-byte header as follows:
+
+ u32 magic = 0x14000008; /* branch to stext, little-endian */
+ u32 res0 = 0; /* reserved */
+ u64 text_offset; /* Image load offset */
+ u64 res1 = 0; /* reserved */
+ u64 res2 = 0; /* reserved */
we need to have a magic to known it's a arm64 kernel
You have it: it's 0x14000008 at the beginning.
fragile
Others have commented on the relocatable kernel non-issue. But to this
part, also bear in mind that Catalin pointed out boot standardization
work may change how some AArch64 systems ultimately end up booting.
Thanks,
Jon.
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