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authorStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>2011-11-10 13:17:53 -0700
committerStefan Roese <sr@denx.de>2011-12-01 09:45:35 +0100
commitb9b50e89d317c58becd0e2d7fac2e21e3a81dd0a (patch)
tree3d232af9ba19de272563e24d8f12fc8293b6a2bf /common
parenta63d9652757605ec5f7104addc5d38bf10ba8671 (diff)
image: Implement IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD
The legacy uImage format includes an absolute load and entry-point address. When bootm operates on a kernel uImage in memory that isn't loaded at the address in the image's load address, U-Boot will copy the image to its address in the header. Some kernel images can actually be loaded and used at any arbitrary address. An example is an ARM Linux kernel zImage file. To represent this capability, IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD is implemented, which operates just like IH_TYPE_KERNEL, except that the load address header is ignored, and U-Boot does not copy the image to its load address, but rather uses it in-place. This is useful when sharing a single (uImage-wrapped) zImage across multiple boards with different memory layouts; in this case, a specific load address need not be picked when creating the uImage, but instead is selected by the board-specific U-Boot environment used to load and boot that image. v2: Rename from IH_TYPE_KERNEL_ANYLOAD to IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'common')
-rw-r--r--common/cmd_bootm.c10
-rw-r--r--common/image.c1
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/common/cmd_bootm.c b/common/cmd_bootm.c
index b073f095b..8cafe3e67 100644
--- a/common/cmd_bootm.c
+++ b/common/cmd_bootm.c
@@ -272,7 +272,13 @@ static int bootm_start(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[]
return 1;
}
+ if (images.os.type == IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD) {
+ images.os.load = images.os.image_start;
+ images.ep += images.os.load;
+ }
+
if (((images.os.type == IH_TYPE_KERNEL) ||
+ (images.os.type == IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD) ||
(images.os.type == IH_TYPE_MULTI)) &&
(images.os.os == IH_OS_LINUX)) {
/* find ramdisk */
@@ -796,7 +802,8 @@ static int fit_check_kernel(const void *fit, int os_noffset, int verify)
}
show_boot_progress(106);
- if (!fit_image_check_type(fit, os_noffset, IH_TYPE_KERNEL)) {
+ if (!fit_image_check_type(fit, os_noffset, IH_TYPE_KERNEL) &&
+ !fit_image_check_type(fit, os_noffset, IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD)) {
puts("Not a kernel image\n");
show_boot_progress(-106);
return 0;
@@ -874,6 +881,7 @@ static void *boot_get_kernel(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
/* get os_data and os_len */
switch (image_get_type(hdr)) {
case IH_TYPE_KERNEL:
+ case IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD:
*os_data = image_get_data(hdr);
*os_len = image_get_data_size(hdr);
break;
diff --git a/common/image.c b/common/image.c
index 555d9d9d4..aacae5ac5 100644
--- a/common/image.c
+++ b/common/image.c
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ static const table_entry_t uimage_type[] = {
{ IH_TYPE_FIRMWARE, "firmware", "Firmware", },
{ IH_TYPE_FLATDT, "flat_dt", "Flat Device Tree", },
{ IH_TYPE_KERNEL, "kernel", "Kernel Image", },
+ { IH_TYPE_KERNEL_NOLOAD, "kernel_noload", "Kernel Image (no loading done)", },
{ IH_TYPE_KWBIMAGE, "kwbimage", "Kirkwood Boot Image",},
{ IH_TYPE_IMXIMAGE, "imximage", "Freescale i.MX Boot Image",},
{ IH_TYPE_INVALID, NULL, "Invalid Image", },