loader: Allow ELF loader to auto-detect the ELF arch

If the caller didn't specify an architecture for the ELF machine
the load_elf() function will auto detect it based on the ELF file.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: f2d70b47fcad31445f947f8817a0e146d80a046b.1474331683.git.alistair.francis@xilinx.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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Alistair Francis 2016-09-22 18:13:07 +01:00 committed by Peter Maydell
parent 1372fc0b87
commit 8cf6e9daca
2 changed files with 7 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -280,6 +280,11 @@ static int glue(load_elf, SZ)(const char *name, int fd,
glue(bswap_ehdr, SZ)(&ehdr); glue(bswap_ehdr, SZ)(&ehdr);
} }
if (elf_machine <= EM_NONE) {
/* The caller didn't specify an ARCH, we can figure it out */
elf_machine = ehdr.e_machine;
}
switch (elf_machine) { switch (elf_machine) {
case EM_PPC64: case EM_PPC64:
if (ehdr.e_machine != EM_PPC64) { if (ehdr.e_machine != EM_PPC64) {

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@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ const char *load_elf_strerror(int error);
* load will fail if the target ELF does not match. Some architectures * load will fail if the target ELF does not match. Some architectures
* have some architecture-specific behaviours that come into effect when * have some architecture-specific behaviours that come into effect when
* their particular values for @elf_machine are set. * their particular values for @elf_machine are set.
* If @elf_machine is EM_NONE then the machine type will be read from the
* ELF header and no checks will be carried out against the machine type.
*/ */
int load_elf(const char *filename, uint64_t (*translate_fn)(void *, uint64_t), int load_elf(const char *filename, uint64_t (*translate_fn)(void *, uint64_t),