[U-Boot] [PATCH V3] BOOT: Add "bootz" command to boot Linux zImage

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Mar 13 05:25:29 CET 2012


Dear Marek Vasut,

In message <201203130113.19092.marex at denx.de> you wrote:
> 
> > +	zi = (struct zimage_header *)images->ep;
> > +
> > +	if (zi->zi_magic != LINUX_ARM_ZIMAGE_MAGIC) {
> 
> This gave me an idea ... this might be how to check for zImage inside bootm and 
> be done with it. Simply squash those two together.

Hm... but this must not be the only test, then, or you will run the
risk of false positives...

> > Do we have to care about endianess here?
> 
> We should make bootz arm-specific until more people (with different arches) step 
> up and verify it works for them.

NAK.  Please implement in an architecture independent way right from
the beginning.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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