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

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 12:08 Sat 09 Feb     , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 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.
in barebox we detect the type of file and detect we boot a zImage so be able
to detect we need to boot a be zImage is really appreciate

so we do not ask user how to boot but handle it automaticly

Best Regards,
J.