A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a
great soul has simply nothing to do. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
On POWER8 with current petitpoot, the loader.kboot might be
run as little-endian application. The FreeBSD kernel is
always big-endian, so the load_elf_* routines must be aware
of proper endianness of all fields.
Submitted by: Wojciech Macek <wma@semihalf.com>
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: IBM, QCM Technologies
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12422
magic number to the kernel in r7 rather than the (currently unused and
irrelevant) width of the metadata pointer, which I believe was intended
for a never-used approach to the 64-bit port. This enables the kernel,
in a future commit, to switch on the cookie to distinguish a real
metadata pointer from loader(8) from garbage left in r6 by some other
boot loader.
MFC after: 3 weeks
