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

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Wed Jun 18 11:14:25 PDT 2014


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


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