Hi Clement,
just in case it makes a difference. I load this file over tftp (boot
net)
On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 09:24:55PM +0200, Clément Leger wrote:
> Hi Oleksij,
>
> ----- On 9 May, 2020, at 18:51, Oleksij Rempel o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 04:51:42PM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> >> Hi Clement,
> >>
> >> suddenly it is still exploding. I'll try to investigate the reason.
> >
> > common/elf.c:
> > load_elf_image_phdr()
> > elf_hdr_e_phnum() <-- returns 0
> > for (i = 0; i < elf_hdr_e_phnum(elf, buf) ; ++i) {
> > ... so we will never get here.
> >
> > Probably we should add a sanity check here and be more verbose in this
> > case.
>
> There is something odd because your elf is correct and has 2 program
> headers. So this should not be a problem (but a sanity check makes
> sense !).
>
> I suspect that the elf size computation is wrong with your elf file
> and leads to incompletely loaded elf file but I tried to compute
> it using the sequence of code used in barebox and everything seems ok.
> Maybe there is something with the endianess/elfclass going wrong.
> I tried again on kvx to be sure I did not made a mistake but it works
> and the elf entry address is correctly used.
> I'll try to add handling for different endianess and load your elf
> file on kvx to debug that.
>
> >
> > here is my elf image:
> > https://github.com/olerem/barebox/blob/new-elf/ore-linux-dpt-module
>
> I succeeded in building Distrokit images but I can't get it under barebox.
> There is only 4M oof RAM and each time I tries to modify it, it won't boot
> anymore.
> I tried integrating the kernel (and your eore-linux-dpt-module elf) in
> the environment but it also won't boot. Do you have any idea on how to
> do it ?
> Even if the kernel won't start under qemu , at least I'll be able to
> understand what is wrong.
>
> Thanks for testing,
>
> Clément
>
> >
> >> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 07:04:04PM +0200, Clement Leger wrote:
> >> > Currently, when booting an elf file using "bootm /dev/mtdx", bootm will
> >> > simply pass the file to the bootm and the read done on it will read the
> >> > entire flash partition. This series starts by some cleanup and then add an
> >> > elf_open function to load the elf file size only based on the elf header.
> >> > A special handling for the elf file is also added in bootm data to allow
> >> > using directly the elf file structure. Finally the mips bootm is modified
> >> > to use bootm_load_os directly instead of manual elf loading.
> >> >
> >> > Compilation for both mips and arm has been tested but run on qemu-malta was not
> >> > possible. Changing the MALLOC_SIZE to allow loading a kernel always lead to a
> >> > non-bootable system. Changes have been tested on kvx architecture for which
> >> > bootm support has been added and will be submitted.
> >> >
> >> > Changes v3 -> v4
> >> > - Fix init of elf entry address to be used by bootm_load_elf
> >> >
> >> > Changes v2 -> v3
> >> > - Integrate elf loading in bootm_load_os
> >> > - Add patch to remove now unused elf_load_image/elf_release_image
> >> > - Use malloc instead of xmalloc and check return value
> >> >
> >> > Changes v1 -> v2
> >> > - Add BOOTM_ELF config to select elf support and add checks in code
> >> > - Add an elf_get_mem_size function to avoid computing elf size in bootm.c
> >> > - Use xmalloc and read_full in elf_open instead of xzalloc/read
> >> > - Fix data->elf NULL reset
> >> > - Remove elf struct entirely from mips bootm code
> >> >
> >> > Clement Leger (7):
> >> > common: elf: add computation of elf boundaries
> >> > common: elf: fix warning on 32 bits architectures
> >> > common: elf: split init to be reused from other function
> >> > common: elf: add elf_open, elf_close and elf_load
> >> > common: bootm: add support for elf file loading
> >> > mips: lib: bootm: use bootm elf loading capabilities
> >> > common: elf: remove elf_load_image/elf_release_image
> >> >
> >> > arch/mips/lib/bootm.c | 31 +++++-------
> >> > common/Kconfig | 8 +++
> >> > common/bootm.c | 33 +++++++++++++
> >> > common/elf.c | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >> > include/bootm.h | 3 ++
> >> > include/elf.h | 16 +++++-
> >> > 6 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > 2.17.1
> >> >
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