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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: arm: use new 64-bit zImage magic numbers for Xen binary



On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 14:11 +0100, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 12:21 +0100 on 25 Sep (1380111711), Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Upstream commit 4370eec05a88 "arm64: Expand arm64 image header" ended up
> > changing the zImage magic (which was actually the initial branch instructio
> > encoding!). The new header has a proper magic number at a fixed location.
> > 
> > Switch Xen itself to using this format. Neither the bootwrapper nor the 
> > models
> > care about this header themselves and real bootloaders are not widely used, 
> > so
> > now is as good a time as any to switch (as upstream have proven)
> 
> By 'upstream' here, you mean Linux?

Yes.

> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>

Thanks.



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