On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 09:10:28AM +0200, Clement Leger wrote: > Currently, when booting an elf file using "bootm /dev/mtdx", bootm will > simply pass the file to the bootm handler and the read done on it will > read the entire flash partition. This series starts by some cleanup and > then modify the elf loader to load the elf file without copying the whole > elf file to an intermediate buffer. Only the elf header is copied in > order to parse the elf file into a list of segment and then, the segments > are loaded directly from the file. > > 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 handler 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. Changes have been tested on kvx architecture for which bootm support > has been added and will be submitted. > > Changes v5 -> v6 > - Add missing elf boundaries computation patch Applied, thanks Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
