Re: [PATCH] ARM: zImage: ensure header in LE format for BE8 kernels

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed Jun 18 2014 - 14:23:00 EST


On 06/18/14 11:21, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 06/18/14 10:55, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>>> All of that to say, with this patch applied, I need a new (and
>>> reliable) way to determine the endianness of a kernel just by looking
>>> at the zImage. Recommendations welcome.
>> Assuming that you have the .config configured to be built into the
>> kernel you could use extract-ikconfig
>>
>> $ ./scripts/extract-ikconfig zImage | grep CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
> Unfortunately, I can't rely on having that built in since I want the
> boot tools to be as generic as possible.
>
>

Yeah ok. Perhaps you can look for the 'setend be' instruction right
after the magic values instead.

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