AArch64 kernel image decompression

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Jan 13 06:42:41 EST 2014


On Monday 13 January 2014 11:29:20 bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com wrote:
> 
> With the u-boot bootloader also having AArch64 support now (see [1]), it would
> make sense to add the uImage and decompressor support to the AArch64 Makefile in 
> Linux kernel as well, so that u-boot can also boot uImages for AArch64 systems
> out-off-box.
> 
> [1]. http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-arm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/aarch64

u-boot should never have to use a uImage on arm64, since it already
supports booting a vmlinux file.

A more sensible thing to add would be vmlinux.gz support in u-boot,
if that doesn't exist already.

	Arnd



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