[PATCH 12/17] ARM: fix magic for bootloader in BE8

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:06:55PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Ben Dooks wrote:
> 
> > If the boot-loader is running little endian and the kernel is compiled
> > big endian then it will not verify the magic number of the front of the
> > kernel.
> > 
> > Note, do we need to also reverse the two values after the magic, or are
> > they used later on in the kernel decompressor?
> 
> Those value instances are not used by the code.  So for consistency they 
> would have to be reversed, yes.  Given those are variable and determined 
> by the linker, I don't know how you could manage it.

Which is why I wish we never had them, they've got in the way before
and they'll continue to do so.  I've seen boot loaders which do
precisely the wrong thing with these too, and had to fight them for
doing so.