Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 May 2018 22:38:59 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: uImage target support on arm64 |
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On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 11:17:19PM +0300, Ramon Fried wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.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.
u-boot keeps inventing new image formats for itself that are specific to u-boot. Not every boot loader is u-boot.
For 32-bit ARM, zImage has _always_ since day one been the preferred format.
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