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 <rjo...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com>
---
hw/arm/boot.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/hw/arm/boot.c b/hw/arm/boot.c
index 1241761..e32f2f4 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,
--
2.0.4
