From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:56:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] aarch64: Allow -kernel option to take a gzip-compressed kernel. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On aarch64 it is the bootloader's job to uncompress the kernel. UEFI and u-boot bootloaders do this automatically when the kernel is gzip-compressed. However the qemu -kernel option does not do this. The following command does not work: qemu-system-aarch64 [...] -kernel /boot/vmlinuz because it tries to execute the gzip-compressed data. This commit lets gzip-compressed kernels be uncompressed transparently. Currently this is only done when emulating aarch64. Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée Reviewed-by: Peter Crosthwaite Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée Message-id: 1407831259-2115-3-git-send-email-rjones@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell (cherry picked from commit 6f5d3cbe8892367026526a7deed0ceecc700a7ad) --- hw/arm/boot.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/arm/boot.c b/hw/arm/boot.c index 3d1f4a2..b7d60aa 100644 --- a/hw/arm/boot.c +++ b/hw/arm/boot.c @@ -510,6 +510,13 @@ void arm_load_kernel(ARMCPU *cpu, struct arm_boot_info *info) kernel_size = load_uimage(info->kernel_filename, &entry, NULL, &is_linux); } + /* On aarch64, it's the bootloader's job to uncompress the kernel. */ + if (arm_feature(&cpu->env, ARM_FEATURE_AARCH64) && kernel_size < 0) { + entry = info->loader_start + kernel_load_offset; + kernel_size = load_image_gzipped(info->kernel_filename, entry, + info->ram_size - kernel_load_offset); + is_linux = 1; + } if (kernel_size < 0) { entry = info->loader_start + kernel_load_offset; kernel_size = load_image_targphys(info->kernel_filename, entry,