On 13 March 2017 at 14:17, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote: > The arm64 boot protocol stipulates that the kernel must be loaded > TEXT_OFFSET bytes beyond a 2 MB aligned base address, where TEXT_OFFSET > could be any 4 KB multiple between 0 and 2 MB, and whose value can be > found in the header of the Image file. > > So after attempts to load the arm64 kernel image as an ELF file or as a > U-Boot image have failed (both of which have their own way of specifying > the load offset), try to determine the TEXT_OFFSET from the image after > loading it but before mapping it as a ROM mapping into the guest address > space. > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> > --- > v2: split off AArch64 specific loader logic regarding gzipped/raw and variable > load offset into a separate helper function, which removes the need for > loading the image twice
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> Since we're due to tag rc1 tomorrow and this is kind of on the border between bugfix and new feature, I think I'd rather defer it to 2.10, unless you have a strong view that it should go into 2.9. thanks -- PMM
