Currently we set the start of the .text section to be 4Mb for pSeries.
In situations where the zImage is > 8Mb we'll fail to boot (due to
overlapping with OF). Move .text in a zImage from 4MB to 64MB (well past OF).
We still will not be able to load large zImage unless we also move OF,
to that end, add a note to the zImage ELF to move OF to 32Mb. If this
is the very first kernel booted then we'll need to moev OF manually by
setting real-base.
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper | 14 ++++++++++++--
arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S | 1 -
arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S | 1 -
5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c
index 8041a98..b1e5611 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ char arch[] = "PowerPC";
#define N_DESCR 6
unsigned int descr[N_DESCR] = {
0xffffffff, /* real-mode = true */
- 0x00c00000, /* real-base, i.e. where we expect OF to be */
+ 0x02000000, /* real-base, i.e. where we expect OF to be */
0xffffffff, /* real-size */
0xffffffff, /* virt-base */
0xffffffff, /* virt-size */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c
index 95b8fd6..93a1a84 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c
@@ -168,8 +168,19 @@ void *of_claim(unsigned long virt, unsigned long size,
unsigned long align)
void *of_vmlinux_alloc(unsigned long size)
{
- void *p = malloc(size);
-
+ unsigned long start = (unsigned long)_start, end = (unsigned long)_end;
+ void *addr;
+ void *p;
+
+ /* With some older POWER4 firmware the we need to claim the area
+ * the kernel will reside in. Newer firmwares don't need this so we
+ * just ignore the return value.
+ */
+ addr = of_claim(start, end - start, 0);
+ printf("Trying to claim from 0x%lx to 0x%lx (0x%lx) got %p\r\n",
+ start, end, end - start, addr);
+
+ p = malloc(size);
if (!p)
fatal("Can't allocate memory for kernel image!\n\r");
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
index d6c96d9..22bc26e 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
@@ -138,14 +138,20 @@ objflags=-S
tmp=$tmpdir/zImage.$$.o
ksection=.kernel:vmlinux.strip
isection=.kernel:initrd
+link_address='0x400000'
case "$platform" in
-pmac|pseries|chrp)
+pseries)
+ platformo=$object/of.o
+ link_address='0x4000000'
+ ;;
+pmac|chrp)
platformo=$object/of.o
;;
coff)
platformo=$object/of.o
lds=$object/zImage.coff.lds
+ link_address='0x500000'
;;
miboot|uboot)
# miboot and U-boot want just the bare bits, not an ELF binary
@@ -190,6 +196,7 @@ ps3)
objflags="-O binary --set-section-flags=.bss=contents,alloc,load,data"
ksection=.kernel:vmlinux.bin
isection=.kernel:initrd
+ link_address=''
;;
ep88xc|ep405|ep8248e)
platformo="$object/fixed-head.o $object/$platform.o"
@@ -268,7 +275,10 @@ if [ -n "$dtb" ]; then
fi
if [ "$platform" != "miboot" ]; then
- ${CROSS}ld -m elf32ppc -T $lds -o "$ofile" \
+ if [ -n "$link_address" ] ; then
+ text_start="-Ttext $link_address --defsym _start=$link_address"
+ fi
+ ${CROSS}ld -m elf32ppc -T $lds $text_start -o "$ofile" \
$platformo $tmp $object/wrapper.a
rm $tmp
fi
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S
b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S
index fe87a90..856dc78 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ ENTRY(_zimage_start_opd)
EXTERN(_zimage_start_opd)
SECTIONS
{
- . = (5*1024*1024);
_start = .;
.text :
{
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S
index f6e380f..0962d62 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ ENTRY(_zimage_start)
EXTERN(_zimage_start)
SECTIONS
{
- . = (4*1024*1024);
_start = .;
.text :
{
--
1.5.5.4
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