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| -rw-r--r-- | hw/ppc_oldworld.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/hw/ppc_oldworld.c b/hw/ppc_oldworld.c index 042a40feea..fa8d106c83 100644 --- a/hw/ppc_oldworld.c +++ b/hw/ppc_oldworld.c @@ -207,10 +207,16 @@ static void ppc_heathrow_init (ram_addr_t ram_size, int vga_ram_size, } if (linux_boot) { + uint64_t lowaddr = 0; kernel_base = KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR; - /* now we can load the kernel */ - kernel_size = load_elf(kernel_filename, kernel_base - 0xc0000000ULL, - NULL, NULL, NULL); + /* Now we can load the kernel. The first step tries to load the kernel + supposing PhysAddr = 0x00000000. If that was wrong the kernel is + loaded again, the new PhysAddr being computed from lowaddr. */ + kernel_size = load_elf(kernel_filename, kernel_base, NULL, &lowaddr, NULL); + if (kernel_size > 0 && lowaddr != KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR) { + kernel_size = load_elf(kernel_filename, (2 * kernel_base) - lowaddr, + NULL, 0, NULL); + } if (kernel_size < 0) kernel_size = load_aout(kernel_filename, kernel_base, ram_size - kernel_base); |