arm64: Expand arm64 image header
authorRoy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:10:00 +0000 (00:10 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:45:04 +0000 (11:45 +0100)
Expand the arm64 image header to allow for co-existance with
PE/COFF header required by the EFI stub.  The PE/COFF format
requires the "MZ" header to be at offset 0, and the offset
to the PE/COFF header to be at offset 0x3c.  The image
header is expanded to allow 2 instructions at the beginning
to accommodate a benign intruction at offset 0 that includes
the "MZ" header, a magic number, and the offset to the PE/COFF
header.

Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
arch/arm64/kernel/head.S

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@@ -68,13 +68,23 @@ Image target is available instead.
 
 Requirement: MANDATORY
 
-The decompressed kernel image contains a 32-byte header as follows:
+The decompressed kernel image contains a 64-byte header as follows:
 
-  u32 magic    = 0x14000008;   /* branch to stext, little-endian */
-  u32 res0     = 0;            /* reserved */
+  u32 code0;                   /* Executable code */
+  u32 code1;                   /* Executable code */
   u64 text_offset;             /* Image load offset */
+  u64 res0     = 0;            /* reserved */
   u64 res1     = 0;            /* reserved */
   u64 res2     = 0;            /* reserved */
+  u64 res3     = 0;            /* reserved */
+  u64 res4     = 0;            /* reserved */
+  u32 magic    = 0x644d5241;   /* Magic number, little endian, "ARM\x64" */
+  u32 res5 = 0;                /* reserved */
+
+
+Header notes:
+
+- code0/code1 are responsible for branching to stext.
 
 The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000)
 from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the
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        .quad   TEXT_OFFSET                     // Image load offset from start of RAM
        .quad   0                               // reserved
        .quad   0                               // reserved
+       .quad   0                               // reserved
+       .quad   0                               // reserved
+       .quad   0                               // reserved
+       .byte   0x41                            // Magic number, "ARM\x64"
+       .byte   0x52
+       .byte   0x4d
+       .byte   0x64
+       .word   0                               // reserved
 
 ENTRY(stext)
        mov     x21, x0                         // x21=FDT