[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] ARMv8: add optional Linux kernel image header

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 04:54:21PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:

> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> 
> Allow placing a Linux kernel image header at the start of the U-Boot
> binary. This is useful since the image header reports the amount of memory
> (BSS and similar) that U-Boot needs to use, but that isn't part of the
> binary size. This can be used by the code that loads U-Boot into memory to
> determine where to load U-Boot, based on other users of memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> ---
> This series relies (at the very least for diff context) on the previous
> series I sent Dec 19: ARM: tegra: don't use CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE when no
> SPL ... ARM: tegra: use CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_BSS_OFFSET.

Neat.  Are the Linux folks encouraging other projects to re-use this
header?  Is there somewhere we can point to as reference for the format
for the Kconfig help as well, not just the text?  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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