On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Taras Kondratiuk <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Nico Pitre <[email protected]> > > All known BE8-capable systems have LE bootloaders, so we need to ensure > that the magic number and image start/end values are in little endian > format. > > [[email protected]: from nico's original email on this subject] > Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <[email protected]> > [[email protected]: removed lds.S->lds rule, added target to > extra-y] > Signed-off-by: Taras Kondratiuk <[email protected]>
This patch has now hit -next (as of next-20140618) and I noticed all my big-endian boot tests failed[1]. Turns out they failed because I'm deciding whether to pass a big-endian or little-endian initramfs based on the magic number of the zImage. Since it's now always little endian, even the big-endian kernels were boot tested with a little endian initramfs. And guess what.... they failed. I like this patch for several reasons, including the fact that u-boot's bootz support checks the magic number and failed before this patch. All of that to say, with this patch applied, I need a new (and reliable) way to determine the endianness of a kernel just by looking at the zImage. Recommendations welcome. Thanks, Kevin [1] http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/kernel-build-reports/2014-June/004059.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
