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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2014-08-19 18:56:28 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-08-19 19:02:40 +0100
commit6f5d3cbe8892367026526a7deed0ceecc700a7ad (patch)
tree18357591448ac1f95e1482f3c3ef3e63117e7a6e /hw/arm
parent235e74afcb85285a8e35e75f0cb6e6811267bb75 (diff)
aarch64: Allow -kernel option to take a gzip-compressed kernel.
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> Reviewed-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Message-id: 1407831259-2115-3-git-send-email-rjones@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw/arm')
-rw-r--r--hw/arm/boot.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hw/arm/boot.c b/hw/arm/boot.c
index 12417617a3..e32f2f4158 100644
--- a/hw/arm/boot.c
+++ b/hw/arm/boot.c
@@ -514,6 +514,13 @@ 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 (arm_feature(&cpu->env, ARM_FEATURE_AARCH64) && 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,