Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Build flat and compressed kernel images

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:06:18 PST (-0800), bmeng.cn@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 1:55 PM Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This patch extends Linux RISC-V build system to build and install:
> > Image - Flat uncompressed kernel image
> > Image.gz - Flat and GZip compressed kernel image
> >
> > Quiet a few bootloaders (such as Uboot, UEFI, etc) are capable of
>
> nits: U-Boot
>
> > booting flat and compressed kernel images. In case of Uboot, booting
>
> nits: U-Boot

Thanks for the review.  The PR has already been tagged, but it's not scheduled 
to be sent out until later today.  I generally try to avoid rewriting the tags 
unless there's something major that's wrong, so unless you feel very strongly 
about this then I think I'll let it stand.

Let me know if this is a big deal for you, I can rewrite things.

> > Image or Image.gz is achieved using bootm command.
> >
> > The flat and uncompressed kernel image (i.e. Image) is very useful
> > in pre-silicon developent and testing because we can create back-door
> > HEX files for RAM on FPGAs from Image.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/riscv/Makefile             | 15 ++++++++-
> >  arch/riscv/boot/.gitignore      |  2 ++
> >  arch/riscv/boot/Makefile        | 33 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/riscv/boot/install.sh      | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/head.S        | 10 ++++++
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |  2 +-
> >  6 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/boot/.gitignore
> >  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/boot/Makefile
> >  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/boot/install.sh
>
> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tested with U-Boot s-mode on QEMU virt, using bootm to boot the kernel
> Tested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@xxxxxxxxx>

I also won't include the tags unless I rewrite the tags.

Thanks for the review!