Hello Jules,
On 12.04.21 11:27, Jules Maselbas wrote:
> Hi Ahmad,
>
> Just in case you didn't know, the byte swap can be done
> without a writting C program but with a simple shell script.
>
> You can use objcopy to create a byte swapped image:
> objcopy -I binary --reverse-bytes=4 barebox barebox.swapped
>
> You can use truncate to make sure the file size is multiple of 4 bytes:
> truncate -s %4 file
>
> bswap32 script could be implemented like this:
> cp $in $out
> truncate -s %4 $out
> objcopy -I binary --reverse-byte=4 $out
I did not know that objcopy can be used for that. Will try it out and
send a fixup.
Thanks!
Ahmad
>
> Best,
> Jules
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 09:16:38AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
>> Having to manually swap the words in the MIPS Malta image for QEMU
>> little endian emulation is annoying.
>>
>> Have the multi-image build for Malta generate a second .swapped
>> image that can be readily used if needed.
>>
>> Cc: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/boards/mips/qemu-malta.rst | 16 ++---
>> images/.gitignore | 1 +
>> images/Makefile | 2 +-
>> images/Makefile.malta | 8 ++-
>> scripts/Makefile | 1 +
>> scripts/bswap.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 6 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 scripts/bswap.c
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/boards/mips/qemu-malta.rst b/Documentation/boards/mips/qemu-malta.rst
>> index e188ae8c642a..fd37d5edb229 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/boards/mips/qemu-malta.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/boards/mips/qemu-malta.rst
>> @@ -10,31 +10,23 @@ QEMU run string:
>>
>> qemu-system-mips -nodefaults -M malta -m 256 \
>> -device VGA -serial stdio -monitor null \
>> - -bios barebox-flash-image
>> + -bios ./images/barebox-qemu-malta.img
>>
>>
>> Little-endian mode
>> ------------------
>>
>> -Running little-endian Malta is a bit tricky.
>> In little-endian mode the 32bit words in the boot flash image are swapped,
>> a neat trick which allows bi-endian firmware.
>>
>> -You have to swap words of ``zbarebox.bin`` image, e.g.:
>> -
>> -.. code-block:: sh
>> -
>> - echo arch/mips/pbl/zbarebox.bin \
>> - | cpio --create \
>> - | cpio --extract --swap --unconditional
>> -
>> -QEMU run string:
>> +The barebox build generates a second ``./images/barebox-qemu-malta.img.swapped``
>> +image that can be used in this case, e.g.:
>>
>> .. code-block:: sh
>>
>> qemu-system-mipsel -nodefaults -M malta -m 256 \
>> -device VGA -serial stdio -monitor null \
>> - -bios barebox-flash-image
>> + -bios ./images/barebox-qemu-malta.img.swapped
>>
>>
>> Using GXemul
>> diff --git a/images/.gitignore b/images/.gitignore
>> index eafdb44b5bdd..3a9a77dad16e 100644
>> --- a/images/.gitignore
>> +++ b/images/.gitignore
>> @@ -32,3 +32,4 @@ barebox.sum
>> *.mvebu1img
>> *.stm32
>> *.nmon
>> +*.swapped
>> diff --git a/images/Makefile b/images/Makefile
>> index c185982c17ed..cc330d957597 100644
>> --- a/images/Makefile
>> +++ b/images/Makefile
>> @@ -218,5 +218,5 @@ $(flash-list): $(image-y-path)
>> clean-files := *.pbl *.pblb *.map start_*.imximg *.img barebox.z start_*.kwbimg \
>> start_*.kwbuartimg *.socfpgaimg *.mlo *.t20img *.t20img.cfg *.t30img \
>> *.t30img.cfg *.t124img *.t124img.cfg *.mlospi *.mlo *.mxsbs *.mxssd \
>> - start_*.simximg start_*.usimximg *.zynqimg *.image
>> + start_*.simximg start_*.usimximg *.zynqimg *.image *.swapped
>> clean-files += pbl.lds
>> diff --git a/images/Makefile.malta b/images/Makefile.malta
>> index 5739ec464092..ce7b4424b63b 100644
>> --- a/images/Makefile.malta
>> +++ b/images/Makefile.malta
>> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
>> +quiet_cmd_bswap32_image = BSWAP4 $@
>> + cmd_bswap32_image = scripts/bswap -B 4 $< > $@
>> +
>> +$(obj)/%.img.swapped: $(obj)/%.img FORCE
>> + $(call if_changed,bswap32_image)
>> +
>> pblb-$(CONFIG_BOARD_QEMU_MALTA) += start_qemu_malta
>> FILE_barebox-qemu-malta.img = start_qemu_malta.pblb
>> -image-$(CONFIG_BOARD_QEMU_MALTA) += barebox-qemu-malta.img
>> +image-$(CONFIG_BOARD_QEMU_MALTA) += barebox-qemu-malta.img barebox-qemu-malta.img.swapped
>> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile b/scripts/Makefile
>> index 2d322fd1c923..57861fa9b2f8 100644
>> --- a/scripts/Makefile
>> +++ b/scripts/Makefile
>> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += kallsyms
>> hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_MIPS) += mips-relocs
>> hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_MVEBU_HOSTTOOLS) += kwbimage kwboot mvebuimg
>> hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP) += omap_signGP mk-omap-image
>> +hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_BOARD_QEMU_MALTA) += bswap
>> hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_ARCH_S5PCxx) += s5p_cksum
>> hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_ARCH_DAVINCI) += mkublheader
>> HOSTCFLAGS_zynq_mkimage.o = -I$(srctree) -I$(srctree)/arch/arm/mach-zynq/include
>> diff --git a/scripts/bswap.c b/scripts/bswap.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..e87d30cfe51e
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/scripts/bswap.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
>> +// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Jan Luebbe <j.luebbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> +
>> +#define _BSD_SOURCE
>> +#define _DEFAULT_SOURCE
>> +
>> +#include <stdio.h>
>> +#include <sys/types.h>
>> +#include <sys/stat.h>
>> +#include <fcntl.h>
>> +#include <unistd.h>
>> +#include <stdint.h>
>> +#include <limits.h>
>> +#include <errno.h>
>> +#include <stdlib.h>
>> +#include <string.h>
>> +#include <getopt.h>
>> +#include <endian.h>
>> +
>> +static void usage(char *prgname)
>> +{
>> + printf("usage: %s [OPTION] FILE > IMAGE\n"
>> + "\n"
>> + "options:\n"
>> + " -B number of bytes to swap each time\n",
>> + prgname);
>> +}
>> +
>> +int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>> +{
>> + FILE *input;
>> + int opt;
>> + size_t size;
>> + unsigned long bytes = 0;
>> + uint32_t temp_u32;
>> +
>> + while((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "B:")) != -1) {
>> + switch (opt) {
>> + case 'B':
>> + bytes = strtoul(optarg, NULL, 0);
>> + break;
>> + }
>> + }
>> +
>> + if (optind >= argc) {
>> + usage(argv[0]);
>> + return 1;
>> + }
>> +
>> + if (bytes != 4) {
>> + fprintf(stderr, "-B %s unsupported\n", optarg);
>> + return 1;
>> + }
>> +
>> + input = fopen(argv[optind], "r");
>> + if (input == NULL) {
>> + perror("fopen");
>> + return 1;
>> + }
>> +
>> + for (;;) {
>> + size = fread(&temp_u32, 1, sizeof(uint32_t), input);
>> + if (!size)
>> + break;
>> + if (size < 4 && !feof(input)) {
>> + perror("fread");
>> + return 1;
>> + }
>> +
>> + temp_u32 = htobe32(le32toh(temp_u32));
>> + if (fwrite(&temp_u32, 1, sizeof(uint32_t), stdout) != 4) {
>> + perror("fwrite");
>> + return 1;
>> + }
>> + }
>> +
>> + if (fclose(input) != 0) {
>> + perror("fclose");
>> + return 1;
>> + }
>> +
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> --
>> 2.29.2
>>
>>
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