[PATCH 4/4] ppc/uImage: Add support for RAM Disks

Suzuki K. Poulose suzuki at in.ibm.com
Wed Mar 6 03:41:37 EST 2013


From: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki at in.ibm.com>

Handle the RAM Disks in uImage format

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki at in.ibm.com>
---
 kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-uImage-ppc.c |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-uImage-ppc.c b/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-uImage-ppc.c
index ef9adc4..e0bc7bb 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-uImage-ppc.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-uImage-ppc.c
@@ -46,6 +46,31 @@ void uImage_ppc_usage(void)
 	);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Load the ramdisk into buffer.
+ *  If the supplied image is in uImage format use
+ *  uImage_load() to read the payload from the image.
+ */
+char *slurp_ramdisk_ppc(const char *filename, off_t *r_size)
+{
+	struct Image_info img;
+	off_t size;
+	const unsigned char *buf = slurp_file(filename, &size);
+
+	/* Check if this is a uImage RAMDisk */
+	if (buf &&
+	    uImage_probe_ramdisk(buf, size, IH_ARCH_PPC) == 0) {
+		if (uImage_load(buf, size, &img) != 0)
+			die("uImage: Reading %ld bytes from %s failed\n",
+				size, filename);
+		buf = img.buf;
+		size = img.len;
+	}
+
+	*r_size = size;
+	return buf;
+}
+	
 int uImage_ppc_probe(const char *buf, off_t len)
 {
 	return uImage_probe_kernel(buf, len, IH_ARCH_PPC);
@@ -190,7 +215,7 @@ static int ppc_load_bare_bits(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf,
 	blob_buf = fixup_dtb_init(info, blob_buf, &blob_size, load_addr, &dtb_addr);
 
 	if (ramdisk) {
-		seg_buf = slurp_file(ramdisk, &seg_size);
+		seg_buf = slurp_ramdisk_ppc(ramdisk, &seg_size);
 		/* Load ramdisk at top of memory */
 		hole_addr = add_buffer(info, seg_buf, seg_size, seg_size,
 				0, dtb_addr + blob_size, max_addr, -1);




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