From fc77c3116f7e4b3400e576c51e73ade2edee350a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:32:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] aarch64: Allow -kernel option to take a gzip-compressed
kernel.
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On aarch64 it is the bootloader's job to uncompress the kernel. UEFI
and u-boot bootloaders do this automatically when the kernel is
gzip-compressed.
However the qemu -kernel option does not do this. The following
command does not work:
qemu-system-aarch64 [...] -kernel /boot/vmlinuz
because it tries to execute the gzip-compressed data.
This commit lets gzip-compressed kernels be uncompressed
transparently.
Currently this is only done when emulating aarch64.
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
hw/arm/boot.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/hw/arm/boot.c b/hw/arm/boot.c
index 1241761..c71c4d5 100644
--- a/hw/arm/boot.c
+++ b/hw/arm/boot.c
@@ -448,6 +448,7 @@ static void do_cpu_reset(void *opaque)
void arm_load_kernel(ARMCPU *cpu, struct arm_boot_info *info)
{
CPUState *cs = CPU(cpu);
+ int allow_compressed_kernels = 0;
int kernel_size;
int initrd_size;
int is_linux = 0;
@@ -469,6 +470,7 @@ void arm_load_kernel(ARMCPU *cpu, struct arm_boot_info *info)
primary_loader = bootloader_aarch64;
kernel_load_offset = KERNEL64_LOAD_ADDR;
elf_machine = EM_AARCH64;
+ allow_compressed_kernels = 1;
} else {
primary_loader = bootloader;
kernel_load_offset = KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR;
@@ -514,6 +516,13 @@ void arm_load_kernel(ARMCPU *cpu, struct arm_boot_info *info)
kernel_size = load_uimage(info->kernel_filename, &entry, NULL,
&is_linux);
}
+ /* On aarch64, it's the bootloader's job to uncompress the kernel. */
+ if (allow_compressed_kernels && kernel_size < 0) {
+ entry = info->loader_start + kernel_load_offset;
+ kernel_size = load_image_gzipped(info->kernel_filename, entry,
+ info->ram_size - kernel_load_offset);
+ is_linux = 1;
+ }
if (kernel_size < 0) {
entry = info->loader_start + kernel_load_offset;
kernel_size = load_image_targphys(info->kernel_filename, entry,
--
2.0.4