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 <rjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-id: 1407831259-2115-3-git-send-email-rjones@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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