[PATCH] arm64: Add new file asm/image.h
Geoff Levand
geoff at infradead.org
Wed Jun 18 16:07:54 PDT 2014
Add the new file asm/image.h that exports a structure arm64_image_header and
some constants to user space that describe the arm64 image header.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>
---
Documentation/arm64/booting.txt | 21 ++--------------
arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild | 2 ++
arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
index 525e37c..55f246b 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
@@ -68,25 +68,8 @@ Image target is available instead.
Requirement: MANDATORY
-The decompressed kernel image contains a 64-byte header as follows:
-
- u32 code0; /* Executable code */
- u32 code1; /* Executable code */
- u64 text_offset; /* Image load offset */
- u8 byte_order; /* 1=LSB (little endian), 2=MSB (big endian) */
- u8[3] res1; /* reserved */
- u32 res2 = 0; /* reserved */
- u64 res3 = 0; /* reserved */
- u64 res4 = 0; /* reserved */
- u64 res5 = 0; /* reserved */
- u64 res6 = 0; /* reserved */
- u32 magic = 0x644d5241; /* Magic number, little endian, "ARM\x64" */
- u32 res7 = 0; /* reserved */
-
-
-Header notes:
-
-- code0/code1 are responsible for branching to stext.
+The decompressed kernel image contains a 64-byte header as described in
+arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h.
The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000)
from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild b/arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild
index 42c7eec..f73e67a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild
@@ -55,3 +55,5 @@ generic-y += unaligned.h
generic-y += user.h
generic-y += vga.h
generic-y += xor.h
+
+header-y += image.h
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d56872
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Linaro.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#ifndef __ASM_IMAGE_H
+#define __ASM_IMAGE_H
+
+#if !defined(__ASSEMBLY__)
+
+/**
+ * struct arm64_image_header - arm64 kernel image header.
+ *
+ * @branch_code: Reserved for instructions to branch to stext.
+ * @text_offset: Image load offset.
+ * @endian: Image byte order: 1=LSB (little endian), 2=MSB (big endian).
+ * @reserved_1: Reserved.
+ * @reserved_2: Reserved.
+ * @reserved_3: Reserved.
+ * @magic: Magic number, "ARM\x64".
+ * @reserved_4: Reserved.
+ **/
+
+struct arm64_image_header {
+ uint32_t branch_code[2];
+ uint64_t text_offset;
+ uint8_t endian;
+ uint8_t reserved_1[3];
+ uint32_t reserved_2;
+ uint64_t reserved_3[4];
+ uint8_t magic[4];
+ uint32_t reserved_4;
+};
+
+enum {arm64_image_le = 1, arm64_image_be = 2};
+
+static const uint8_t arm64_image_magic[4] = {'A', 'R', 'M', 0x64};
+static const uint32_t arm64_image_magic_lsb = 0x644d5241U;
+static const uint32_t arm64_image_magic_msb = 0x41524d64U;
+
+#endif /* !defined(__ASSEMBLY__) */
+
+#endif /* __ASM_IMAGE_H */
--
1.9.1
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