linux-kernel - Re: uImage target support on arm64

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Date:   Thu, 24 May 2018 23:17:19 +0300
From:   Ramon Fried <ramon.fried@...il.com>
To:     Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
Cc:     catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: uImage target support on arm64

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il> wrote:
> Hi Ramon,
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:05:15PM +0300, Ramon Fried wrote:
>> I've noticed that it's not supported.
>> Is it on purpose ?
>
> Yes. The 32bit load address in the uImage header in pretty limited when
> applied to 64bit ARM64. Even for ARM zImage is the preferred kernel format for
> quite some time now, since it allows flexible load address, as well as
> multi-platform kernels.
Hi Baruch.
I though that in terms of U-boot, the new FIT image is the preferred
kernel format.
Thanks,
Ramon.
>
>> If not I'll be happy to add support for: make uImage
>> for arm64 targets.
>
> baruch
>
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