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. > > + > > +The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000) > > +from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the > > +system RAM must be aligned to 2MB. > can we drop this Drop what? And why? Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
