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Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> says: This series builds on top of what Beleswar Padhi did in [1]. While there's still discussion about the mkimage related parts, the linker portion appears to the reliable path forward. An alternative that I had mentioned before, and was part of previous discussions on this topic[2] is in the end I believe not reliable enough. While we can take an output file and pad it to where we think it needs to be, ultimately the linker needs to place the symbol where we want it and if that isn't where we pad to, we have a different problem. So what this series does (but each commit message elaborates on the arch-specific linker scripts being inconsistent) is make sure the linker script will place the required symbol at 8-byte alignment, and then also use an ASSERT to fail the build if this would not be true due to some unforseen event. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20260112101102.1417970-1-b-padhi@ti.com/ [2]: https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/issues/30 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260115222828.3931345-1-trini@konsulko.com