[U-Boot] mkimage and load addresses beyond 4 Gb

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear John,

In message <CANaRHtnjB-eU=au7VWzBVnM=ERrvWhF7nKUzZUC4QfsJJaNF=A at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> At present, the load address and entry point are both "unsigned int".  I'm
> porting to aarch64, and will run the SPL at 0x8031000000.  mkimage
> truncates this to 0x31000000.  Are there any plans to support a load
> address and entry point larger than 32 bits?

The old legacy (binary) uImage header uses u32, and there is no
compatible way to change that.

I think for any 64 bit architecture you will want to use FIT images
right from the beginning.  This will also need some patches, though.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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