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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] hw/arm: pass pristine kernel image to gu
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] hw/arm: pass pristine kernel image to guest firmware over fw_cfg |
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Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:25:41 +0000 |
On 16 December 2014 at 12:20, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> The patch as is assumes that AArch64 images are always gzipped. I don't
> think this assumption is correct - if you do "make Image" on a kernel
> source tree, you will get an uncompressed Image file.
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> I think we'd be better off trying to load it as gzip and if it's not
> gzipped, fall back to linear load.
Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, we need to continue to support
loading non-compressed Images as well as compressed ones,
so this patch needs to do the try-and-fall-back, in the
same way the current loader code does.
thanks
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/8] fw_cfg: introduce the "data_memwidth" property, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] fw_cfg: generalize overlap check for combining control and data I/O ports, Laszlo Ersek, 2014/12/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/8] fw_cfg: expose the "data_memwidth" prop with fw_cfg_init_data_memwidth(), Laszlo Ersek, 2014/12/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 5/8] arm: add fw_cfg to "virt" board, Laszlo Ersek, 2014/12/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 6/8] hw/loader: split out load_image_gzipped_buffer(), Laszlo Ersek, 2014/12/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] hw/arm: pass pristine kernel image to guest firmware over fw_cfg, Laszlo Ersek, 2014/12/12
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 8/8] hw/arm/virt: enable passing of EFI-stubbed kernel to guest UEFI firmware, Laszlo Ersek, 2014/12/12