From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Clement Leger <cleger@kalray.eu>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] elf: add better bootm support
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:15:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200615141545.GU11869@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200612071036.27864-1-cleger@kalray.eu>
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
Applied, thanks
Sascha
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-12 7:10 Clement Leger
2020-06-12 7:10 ` [PATCH v6 1/8] common: elf: add computation of elf boundaries Clement Leger
2020-06-12 7:10 ` [PATCH v6 2/8] common: elf: fix warning on 32 bits architectures Clement Leger
2020-06-12 7:10 ` [PATCH v6 3/8] common: elf: use calloc instead of xzalloc Clement Leger
2020-06-12 7:10 ` [PATCH v6 4/8] common: elf: check number of elf program headers Clement Leger
2020-06-12 7:10 ` [PATCH v6 5/8] common: elf: load elf directly from file Clement Leger
2020-06-12 7:10 ` [PATCH v6 6/8] common: elf: add elf_open, elf_close and elf_load Clement Leger
2020-06-12 7:10 ` [PATCH v6 7/8] common: bootm: add support for elf file loading Clement Leger
2020-06-12 7:10 ` [PATCH v6 8/8] mips: lib: bootm: use bootm elf loading capabilities Clement Leger
2020-06-12 7:41 ` [PATCH v6 0/8] elf: add better bootm support Oleksij Rempel
2020-06-12 7:44 ` Clément Leger
2020-06-15 14:15 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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