This patch adds an optional function pointer, 'elf_note_fn', to
load_elf() which causes load_elf() to additionally parse any
ELF program headers of type PT_NOTE and check to see if the ELF
Note is of the type specified by the 'translate_opaque' arg.
If a matching ELF Note is found then the specfied function pointer
is called to process the ELF note.
Passing a NULL function pointer results in ELF Notes being skipped.
The first consumer of this functionality is the PVHboot support
which needs to read the XEN_ELFNOTE_PHYS32_ENTRY ELF Note while
loading the uncompressed kernel binary in order to discover the
boot entry address for the x86/HVM direct boot ABI.
Signed-off-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The generic-loader is currently compiled target specific due to one
single "#ifdef TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN" in the file. We have already a
function called target_words_bigendian() for this instead, so we can
put the generic-loader into common-obj to save some compilation time.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Each device that is instantiatable by the users should be marked with
a category. Since the generic-loader does not fit anywhere else, put
it into the MISC category.
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
This patch adds Intel Hexadecimal Object File format support to the
generic loader device. The file format specification is available here:
http://www.piclist.com/techref/fileext/hex/intel.htm
This file format is often used with microcontrollers such as the
micro:bit, Arduino, STM32, etc. Users expect to be able to run .hex
files directly with without first converting them to ELF. Most
micro:bit code is developed in web-based IDEs without direct user access
to binutils so it is important for QEMU to handle this file format
natively.
Signed-off-by: Su Hang <suhang16@mails.ucas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Message-id: 20180814162739.11814-6-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
The documentation for the generic loader claims that you can
set the PC for a CPU with an option of the form
-device loader,cpu-num=0,addr=0x10000004
However if you try this QEMU complains:
cpu_num must be specified when setting a program counter
This is because we were testing against 0 rather than CPU_NONE.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-id: 20180205150426.20542-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
When running QEMU with "-M none -device loader,file=kernel.elf", it
currently crashes with a segmentation fault, because the "none"-machine
does not have any CPU by default and the generic loader code tries
to dereference s->cpu. Fix it by adding an appropriate check for a
NULL pointer.
Reported-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
This patch fixes the generic-loader file loading to only set the program
counter if a CPU is specified. This follows what is written in the
documentation and was always part of the original intention.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>
Message-id: 537bf4d08be7acf7a89b590cff69e19db7f0a6cd.1478908712.git.alistair.francis@xilinx.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Add a generic loader to QEMU which can be used to load images or set
memory values.
Internally inside QEMU this is a device. It is a strange device that
provides no hardware interface but allows QEMU to monkey patch memory
specified when it is created. To be able to do this it has a reset
callback that does the memory operations.
This device allows the user to monkey patch memory. To be able to do
this it needs a backend to manage the datas, the same as other
memory-related devices. In this case as the backend is so trivial we
have merged it with the frontend instead of creating and maintaining a
seperate backend.
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 10f2a9dce5e5e11b6c6d959415b0ad6ee22bcba5.1475195078.git.alistair.francis@xilinx.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
