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Date:   Thu, 24 May 2018 22:38:59 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To:     Ramon Fried <ramon.fried@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: uImage target support on arm64
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On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 11:17:19PM +0300, Ramon Fried wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> wrote:
> > Hi Ramon,
> >
> > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:05:15PM +0300, Ramon Fried wrote:
> >> I've noticed that it's not supported.
> >> Is it on purpose ?
> >
> > Yes. The 32bit load address in the uImage header in pretty limited when
> > applied to 64bit ARM64. Even for ARM zImage is the preferred kernel format for
> > quite some time now, since it allows flexible load address, as well as
> > multi-platform kernels.
> Hi Baruch.
> I though that in terms of U-boot, the new FIT image is the preferred
> kernel format.

u-boot keeps inventing new image formats for itself that are specific
to u-boot.  Not every boot loader is u-boot.

For 32-bit ARM, zImage has _always_ since day one been the preferred
format.

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