Re: [Qemu-riscv] [Qemu-devel] [RFC v1 3/5] hw/riscv: Extend the kernel loading support

[Bin Meng]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:56 AM Alistair Francis
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Extend the RISC-V kernel loader to support uImage and Image files.
> A Linux kernel can now be booted with:
>
>     qemu-system-riscv64 -machine virt -bios fw_jump.elf -kernel Image
>
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/riscv/boot.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/riscv/boot.c b/hw/riscv/boot.c
> index 392ca0cb2e..7f68035a3f 100644
> --- a/hw/riscv/boot.c
> +++ b/hw/riscv/boot.c
> @@ -67,13 +67,22 @@ target_ulong riscv_load_kernel(MachineState *machine,
>      uint64_t kernel_entry, kernel_high;
>
>      if (load_elf(kernel_filename, NULL, kernel_translate, machine,
> -                 &kernel_entry, NULL, &kernel_high,
> -                 0, EM_RISCV, 1, 0) < 0) {
> -        error_report("could not load kernel '%s'", kernel_filename);
> -        exit(1);
> +                 &kernel_entry, NULL, &kernel_high, 0, EM_RISCV, 1, 0) > 0) {
> +        return kernel_entry;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (load_uimage_as(kernel_filename, &kernel_entry, NULL, NULL,
> +                       kernel_translate, machine, NULL) > 0) {

We should not set the 'kernel_translate' here for uImage.

In fact, the whole kernel_translate() is not necessary.

> +        return kernel_entry;
> +    }
> +

Regards,
Bin