On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 04:30:41PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > In order to fetch the correct entry point with the ISA bit included, for > use by non-ELF boot loaders, parse the output of `objdump -f' for the > start address recorded in the kernel executable itself, rather than > using `nm' to get the value of the `kernel_entry' symbol. > > Sign-extend the address retrieved if 32-bit, so that execution is > correctly started on 64-bit processors as well. The tool always prints > the entry point using either 8 or 16 hexadecimal digits, matching the > address width (aka class) of the ELF file, even in the presence of > leading zeros. > > Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxx> > --- > Changes in v3: > > - renamed from "MIPS: Set ISA bit in entry-y for microMIPS kernels", to > avoid confusion with commit 5fc9484f5e41, > > - fixed the `sed' program to correctly pass through 64-bit values. Thanks, applied for 4.17. Cheers James
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