Re: [PATCH] riscv-docs: correct the sequence of the magic number 2 since it's little endian

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Hi Jon,

On Tue, 1 Oct 2019, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:01:40 +0000
> Chester Lin <clin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Correct the sequence of the magic number 2 since it's little endian.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chester Lin <clin@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> So I'm slowly digging my way through my docs folder, sorry for the delay.
> 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
> > index 14b1492f689b..f388805aa5c3 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
> > @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The following 64-byte header is present in decompressed Linux kernel image.
> >  	u32 res1  = 0;		  /* Reserved */
> >  	u64 res2  = 0;    	  /* Reserved */
> >  	u64 magic = 0x5643534952; /* Magic number, little endian, "RISCV" */
> > -	u32 magic2 = 0x56534905;  /* Magic number 2, little endian, "RSC\x05" */
> > +	u32 magic2 = 0x05435352;  /* Magic number 2, little endian, "RSC\x05" */
> 
> That's doing more than just reordering the bytes.  Was the original
> completely wrong?  If so, the changelog should probably reflect that.  Or
> else what am I missing?

This was simply due to idiocy on my part, due to a very last-minute patch 
submission, where I missed that the original documented magic number was 
already in little-endian format.  The updated number from Chester is 
correct.

So,

Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>


- Paul



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