On Sat, Aug 22, 2026 at 05:52:14PM +0000, Yao Zi wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 10:20:48AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 08:42:10AM +0000, Yao Zi wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Jiaxun Yang <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > Implement loading and booting functions for LoongArch
> > > standard kernel image as per spec.
> > > 
> > > LoongArch kernel do expect us to fake a efi systemtable
> 
> I occasionally noticed this typo ('a' -> 'an'), will fix it.
> 
> > > for passing fdt to kernel, we don't need to implement any
> > > EFI functions for kernel because it won't look into anything
> > > beside devicetree from that table if we tell kernel we are
> > > not efi compatible by setting a0 boot argument to zero.
> > > 
> > > Link: https://docs.kernel.org/arch/loongarch/booting.html
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <[email protected]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Yao Zi <[email protected]>
> > [snip]
> > > diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Kconfig b/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
> > > index ac4be2c837c0..5654de5a58c7 100644
> > > --- a/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
> > > @@ -56,4 +56,7 @@ config STACK_SIZE_SHIFT
> > >  config OF_BOARD_FIXUP
> > >   default y if OF_SEPARATE
> > >  
> > > +config LIB_BOOTM
> > > + select CRC32
> > 
> > If this is needed, it's a generic problem (and to be fixed outside this
> > series) where LIB_BOOTM (and possibly LIB_BOOTI/Z since you know what to
> > look for) need to select CRC32 and SPL_LIB_BOOTM SPL_CRC32. Thanks.
> 
> I think the dependency is specific to LoongArch, since CRC32 is
> necessary only because we need to fake an EFI system table, which is
> CRC32-checksum'ed, to pass FDT to the kernel on LoongArch. AFAIK other
> architectures don't require such treatment, so I keep this
> LoongArch-only.

Ah, I think where you select LIB_BOOTM you should also select CRC32
then.

-- 
Tom

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