On 17.02.2026 12:58, Oleksii Kurochko wrote: > On 2/16/26 5:31 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 12.02.2026 17:21, Oleksii Kurochko wrote: >>> Introduce support for loading a Linux zImage kernel on RISC-V. >> Before I look here in any detail - where would a zImage come from? I can't >> spot any support for it in Linux'es arch/riscv/Makefile (whereas >> arch/arm/Makefile has such). > > Good point. > > It is something that should be renamed as not Arm64 (Arm32 really has such > target), not RISC-V doesn't really work with zImage. They are using Image plus > Image.gz as compressed image. > > Maybe it would be better to rename kernel_zimage_probe() to something more > generic kernel_image_probe().
Well, it's two things. In the description you explicitly say zImage. That's simply misleading. Renaming the function (if indeed it copes with more than just zImage) would likely be a good thing too, but needs sorting with its maintainers. Jan
