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    ARM: 8079/1: zImage: identify kernel endianness · 9696fcae
    Nicolas Pitre authored
    With patch #8067/1 ("zImage: ensure header in LE format for BE8 kernels")
    applied, it is no longer possible to determine the endianness of a compiled
    kernel image.  This normally shouldn't matter to the boot environment,
    except for those cases where the selection of a ramdisk or root filesystem
    with a matching endianness has to be automated.
    
    Let's add a flag to the zImage header indicating the actual endianness.
    Four bytes from offset 0x30 can be interpreted as follows:
    
    	04 03 02 01	big endian kernel
    
    	01 02 03 04	little endian kernel
    
    Anything else should be interpreted as "unknown", in which case it is
    most likely that patch #8067/1 was not applied either and the zImage
    magic number at offset 0x24 could be used instead to determine
    endianness. No zImage before this patch ever produced 0x01020304 nor
    0x04030201 at offset 0x30 so there is no confusion possible.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarKevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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