Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 6/7] hw/arm: pass pristine kernel image to guest firmware over fw_cfg

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 03:10:42PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Sure, if you have a kernel image (with the EFI stub) that is an
> *immediately executable* EFI binary, then you can just go to the UEFI
> shell, navigate to the filesystem / directory that hosts that image, and
> run it. (Similarly, PXE boot it etc.)
> 
> But in this case the EFI binary is compressed with gzip (for aarch64
> kernels); you couldn't even run it from the UEFI shell.

But ...

$ file /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.0-0.rc7.git0.1.rwmj10.fc22.aarch64 
/boot/vmlinuz-3.18.0-0.rc7.git0.1.rwmj10.fc22.aarch64: gzip compressed data, 
max compression, from Unix
$ uname -a
Linux mustang.home.annexia.org 3.18.0-0.rc7.git0.1.rwmj10.fc22.aarch64 #1 SMP 
Mon Dec 1 18:40:10 GMT 2014 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

How does it work on the baremetal hardware?

Rich.

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