[RFC PATCH 04/10] arm64: add EFI little endian constants to linker script

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jul 30 07:22:10 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 03:18:05PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul, at 05:16:19PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Similar to how text offset and kernel size are mangled to produce little
> > endian constants for the Image header regardless of the endianness of the
> > kernel, this adds a number of constants used in the EFI PE/COFF header which
> > can only be calculated (and byte swapped) by the linker.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/image.h | 16 +++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Where is this file? I can't find it in Linus' tree.

It's queued in the arm64 tree for 3.17 (should also appear in -next at the
moment).

See commit a2c1d73b94ed ("arm64: Update the Image header").

Will



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