From: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, deller@gmx.de, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] kexec_elf: remove elf_addr_to_cpu macro
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:05:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190710180518.GA6343@t470p.stackframe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49206784-009c-391b-5f9a-11e9b1de930b@c-s.fr>
Hi Christophe,
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 05:09:29PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
> Le 10/07/2019 à 16:29, Sven Schnelle a écrit :
> > It had only one definition, so just use the function directly.
>
> It had only one definition because it was for ppc64 only.
> But as far as I understand (at least from the name of the new file), you
> want it to be generic, don't you ? Therefore I get on 32 bits it would be
> elf32_to_cpu().
That brings up the question whether we need those endianess conversions. I would
assume that the ELF file has always the same endianess as the running kernel. So
i think we could just drop them. What do you think?
Regards
Sven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-10 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-10 14:29 [PATCH v3 0/7] kexec: add generic support for elf kernel images Sven Schnelle
2019-07-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] kexec: add KEXEC_ELF Sven Schnelle
2019-07-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] kexec_elf: change order of elf_*_to_cpu() functions Sven Schnelle
2019-07-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] kexec_elf: remove parsing of section headers Sven Schnelle
2019-07-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] kexec_elf: remove PURGATORY_STACK_SIZE Sven Schnelle
2019-07-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] kexec_elf: remove elf_addr_to_cpu macro Sven Schnelle
2019-07-10 15:09 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-07-10 18:05 ` Sven Schnelle [this message]
2019-07-11 11:08 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-15 7:24 ` Sven Schnelle
2019-07-19 14:06 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] kexec_elf: remove Elf_Rel macro Sven Schnelle
2019-07-10 15:02 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-07-10 14:29 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] kexec_elf: remove unused variable in kexec_elf_load() Sven Schnelle
2019-07-10 14:55 ` Christophe Leroy
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