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authorAlexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>2012-06-16 16:52:15 +0900
committerSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>2012-06-18 10:47:04 +0900
commitc423dc9db2d052d997e85e741b16ca919ee3011e (patch)
tree29c305af7e96aadbbf2bc3ac90483bc6b3210089
parent0e4946bc3009e7b9ce6f9d792077eddd7e40cc14 (diff)
downloadkexec-tools-c423dc9db2d052d997e85e741b16ca919ee3011e.tar.gz
Support kernel_noload uImage type
Do not trigger an error when loading a uImage with the IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD type. These images do not need to be copied to their load address before being executed. All archs (excepted PPC) do not use the uImage load and entry point parameters, so their current behavior needs not be changed further than just accepting the image type. Tested and validated on ARM. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
-rw-r--r--include/image.h2
-rw-r--r--kexec/kexec-uImage.c6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/image.h b/include/image.h
index e52acbe7..e742aae7 100644
--- a/include/image.h
+++ b/include/image.h
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@
#define IH_TYPE_FILESYSTEM 7 /* Filesystem Image (any type) */
#define IH_TYPE_FLATDT 8 /* Binary Flat Device Tree Blob */
#define IH_TYPE_KWBIMAGE 9 /* Kirkwood Boot Image */
+#define IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD 14 /* OS Kernel Image, can run */
+ /* from any load address */
/*
* Compression Types
diff --git a/kexec/kexec-uImage.c b/kexec/kexec-uImage.c
index 83e7910b..3bc85c55 100644
--- a/kexec/kexec-uImage.c
+++ b/kexec/kexec-uImage.c
@@ -39,7 +39,11 @@ int uImage_probe(const unsigned char *buf, off_t len, unsigned int arch)
return -1;
}
#endif
- if (header.ih_type != IH_TYPE_KERNEL) {
+ switch (header.ih_type) {
+ case IH_TYPE_KERNEL:
+ case IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD:
+ break;
+ default:
printf("uImage type %d unsupported\n", header.ih_type);
return -1;
}