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From: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: atish.patra@wdc.com, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: riscv: boot: We're not compatible with arm64
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:13:47 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.9999.1909131553051.9752@viisi.sifive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190913192433.4316-2-palmer@sifive.com>

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:

> The documentation for our bootloader claims that it can be made
> compatible with arm64, but that's not true.  There are some differences
> between our format and arm64:
> 
> * We've used the first 32 bits of their 64-bit "res2" as a version number,
>   which we're currently setting to non-zero.

During the review of this patch, I assumed -- maybe incorrectly -- that 
ARM64 didn't require the reserved fields to be zero.  In retrospect, this 
was not a good assumption to make.  It would have been better for me to 
get explicit agreement from the ARM64 folks.

> * We're using their "res4" field as our magic number.
> * We're treating their magic number as our "res3" field,

This looks like the key issue.  Let's rename the 32-bit RISC-V res3 field 
as magic2, and just use it.  Then over time we should be able to deprecate 
the original RISC-V 64-bit magic field.

>   which nominally contains a flag for big endian systems already.  This 
>   can't get set, so we should just drop it -- it's also not described 
>   what the flag means.

This one I'm not seeing.  In both headers, the flags field is in the 
same place: towards the beginning of the headers, before the reserved 
fields:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/riscv/include/asm/image.h#n56

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h#n49

The endianness bit in that field is defined the same way:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst#n106

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt#n46

Please let me know if I've misunderstood your point.

> 
> This patch removes the claim that our header can be made compatible with
> arm64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
> index 1b73fea23b39..77e8e505bc41 100644
> --- a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
> @@ -21,9 +21,8 @@ The following 64-byte header is present in decompressed Linux kernel image.
>  	u32 res3;		  /* Reserved for additional RISC-V specific header */
>  	u32 res4;		  /* Reserved for PE COFF offset */
>  
> -This header format is compliant with PE/COFF header and largely inspired from
> -ARM64 header. Thus, both ARM64 & RISC-V header can be combined into one common
> -header in future.
> +This header format is compliant with PE/COFF header and largely inspired by,
> +but not compatible with, the ARM64 header.
>  
>  Notes:
>  - This header can also be reused to support EFI stub for RISC-V in future. EFI
> -- 
> 2.21.0
> 
> 
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- Paul

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-14  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-13 19:24 [PATCH 0/4] Documentation: riscv: Image cleanups Palmer Dabbelt
2019-09-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: riscv: boot: We're not compatible with arm64 Palmer Dabbelt
2019-09-14  1:13   ` Paul Walmsley [this message]
2019-09-14  2:46     ` Atish Patra
2019-09-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 2/4] Documentation: riscv: boot: Don't claim we're compliant with PE Palmer Dabbelt
2019-09-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] Documentation: riscv: boot: Whitespace fix Palmer Dabbelt
2019-09-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 4/4] Documentation: riscv: boot: Don't mention big-endian Palmer Dabbelt
2019-09-14  4:06 ` [PATCH 0/4] Documentation: riscv: Image cleanups Atish Patra

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