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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt index 1b73fea23b39..14b1492f689b 100644 --- a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt +++ b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The following 64-byte header is present in decompressed Linux kernel image. u32 res1 = 0; /* Reserved */ u64 res2 = 0; /* Reserved */ u64 magic = 0x5643534952; /* Magic number, little endian, "RISCV" */ - u32 res3; /* Reserved for additional RISC-V specific header */ + u32 magic2 = 0x56534905; /* Magic number 2, little endian, "RSC\x05" */ u32 res4; /* Reserved for PE COFF offset */ This header format is compliant with PE/COFF header and largely inspired from @@ -37,13 +37,14 @@ Notes: Bits 16:31 - Major version This preserves compatibility across newer and older version of the header. - The current version is defined as 0.1. + The current version is defined as 0.2. -- res3 is reserved for offset to any other additional fields. This makes the - header extendible in future. One example would be to accommodate ISA - extension for RISC-V in future. For current version, it is set to be zero. +- The "magic" field is deprecated as of version 0.2. In a future + release, it may be removed. This originally should have matched up + with the ARM64 header "magic" field, but unfortunately does not. + The "magic2" field replaces it, matching up with the ARM64 header. -- In current header, the flag field has only one field. +- In current header, the flags field has only one field. Bit 0: Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE. - Image size is mandatory for boot loader to load kernel image. Booting will |