Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] elf: add better bootm support

[Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>]

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Nice work. Thank you!
Following variants was tested:
- net boot
- boot from local ram copy
- boot from spi flash

Tested-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 09:10:28AM +0200, Clement Leger wrote:
> Currently, when booting an elf file using "bootm /dev/mtdx", bootm will
> simply pass the file to the bootm handler and the read done on it will
> read the entire flash partition. This series starts by some cleanup and
> then modify the elf loader to load the elf file without copying the whole
> elf file to an intermediate buffer. Only the elf header is copied in
> order to parse the elf file into a list of segment and then, the segments
> are loaded directly from the file.
> 
> A special handling for the elf file is also added in bootm data to allow
> using directly the elf file structure. Finally the mips bootm handler is
> modified to use bootm_load_os directly instead of manual elf loading.
> 
> Compilation for both mips and arm has been tested but run on qemu-malta was not
> possible. Changes have been tested on kvx architecture for which bootm support
> has been added and will be submitted.
> 
> Changes v5 -> v6
>  - Add missing elf boundaries computation patch
> 
> Changes v4 -> v5
>  - Rework elf loading to load from file rather than a buffer
>  - Use calloc instead of xzalloc in elf file loading
>  - Add check of program headers in elf check
> 
> Changes v3 -> v4
>  - Fix init of elf entry address to be used by bootm_load_elf
> 
> Changes v2 -> v3
>  - Integrate elf loading in bootm_load_os
>  - Add patch to remove now unused elf_load_image/elf_release_image
>  - Use malloc instead of xmalloc and check return value
> 
> Changes v1 -> v2
>  - Add BOOTM_ELF config to select elf support and add checks in code
>  - Add an elf_get_mem_size function to avoid computing elf size in bootm.c
>  - Use xmalloc and read_full in elf_open instead of xzalloc/read
>  - Fix data->elf NULL reset
>  - Remove elf struct entirely from mips bootm code
> 
> Clement Leger (8):
>   common: elf: add computation of elf boundaries
>   common: elf: fix warning on 32 bits architectures
>   common: elf: use calloc instead of xzalloc
>   common: elf: check number of elf program headers
>   common: elf: load elf directly from file
>   common: elf: add elf_open, elf_close and elf_load
>   common: bootm: add support for elf file loading
>   mips: lib: bootm: use bootm elf loading capabilities
> 
>  arch/mips/lib/bootm.c |  25 ++---
>  common/Kconfig        |   8 ++
>  common/bootm.c        |  33 ++++++
>  common/elf.c          | 231 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  include/bootm.h       |   3 +
>  include/elf.h         |  16 ++-
>  6 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
> 
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