The zImage wrapper has a bug where it doesn't claim() the memory for the
kernel properly, it forgets to take into account the offset between the ELF
header and the kernel itself. This results on some machines, like G5s,
into a kernel that crashes at boot when clearing the BSS.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
'make install' creates a /boot/zImage[.vmode] file when the defconfig is used.
It uses the second arg as file content, which is the vmlinux, and the 5th
arg as file name, which is the BOOTIMAGE name.
A comment in an earlier patch to install.sh states that yaboot can not load
a zImage+initrd combo. This was true in kernel 2.6.5 because it did use
bi_recs to pass the initrd info. But this concept was always broken.
Register r3 holds the initrd address and r4 holds the initrd size. This
works with all kernel versions. The current code in main.c leaves r3 and
r4 alone, so the kernel should be able to see and use the memory range with
the initrd content.
If one wants to rerun mkinitrd, it is currently hard to get the uname -r
value for the installed zImage. Without this info, mkinitrd can not know
what modules to use. This would be fixable by including the /proc/version
output of the new kernel. But it is simpler to just use the plain vmlinux.
So all this patch does is to write to /boot/vmlinux instead to /boot/zImage
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Show firmware provided stackpointer during boot.
This helps to find the "taboo" areas on the various boards. claim tends to
fail for these memory areas, but some jokers return success anyway.
Use %p to print the load address, its a pointer.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To prove that the relocation works, move the crt0.o away from the beginning.
Move linker options from command line into linker script. rename entry point
because '_start' is referenced in printf output.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Make the zImage relocateable. So yaboot could just load and run any ELF
binary, without worrying about its load address.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
No need to initialize global variables.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Update comment in memcpy, r7 contains the byte count.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Use memset to clear bss, instead of own version.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Remove userland related stuff from ld.script, they are not required for zImage
use wildcards for some sections.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
bootfiles must be relinked if linker script changes
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Move the gunzip function up.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Compute the vmlinux size at runtime.
Use Z_FULL_FLUSH instead of Z_FINISH, to extract only the ELF header
and ELF program header.
->p_memsz is the required memory range for the executable, including bss
->p_filesz is the size of .text, .data and other runtime sections
These values must be used for the claim call.
All additional memory needed by the kernel is claimed in prom_init, remove
the extra Mb.
Pass the full memsize as target area to gunzip, otherwise not everything
will be uncompressed.
flush_cache has to flush all runtime sections, do not reduce the memrange
by the ->p_offset value because its just that: an offset.
Remove the Makefile code to produce an imagesize.c, its not needed anymore.
Remove all FORCE flags, to not rebuild the zImage if vmlinux was not changed.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Switch ppc64 to the in-kernel zlib, it has less bugs than the current one.
The code in arch/ppc64/boot is compiled as 32bit, so it can not use the
includes from include/asm.
Copy all zlib related header files and convert them with sed.
Reduce the scratch size to 47k, check possible changes at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
string.h needs definition of size_t, but not the one from linux/include
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
In PPC64 there are number of problems in arch/ppc64/boot/main.c that
prevent a kernel from making use of a large (greater than ~16MB) INITRD.
This is 64 bit architecture and really large INITRD images should be
possible.
Simply put the existing code has a fixed reservation (claim) address and
once the kernel plus initrd image are large enough to pass this address
all sorts of bad things occur. The fix is the dynamically establish the
first claim address above the loaded kernel plus initrd (plus some
"padding" and rounding). If PROG_START is defined this will be used as
the minimum safe address - currently known to be 0x01400000 for the
firmwares tested so far.
Signed-off-by: Mark Bellon <mbellon@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This patch cleans up the output generated by ppc64 builds.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Make the bootheader for ppc64 independent from kernel and libc headers.
* add -nostdinc -isystem $gccincludes to not include libc headers
* declare all functions in header files, also the stuff from string.S
* declare some functions static
* use stddef.h to get size_t (hopefully ok)
* remove ppc32-types.h, only elf.h used the __NN types
With further modifications by Paul Mackerras and Stephen Rothwell.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
initrd size is printed as hex, add a missing 0x
remove a duplicate printf when initrd is used.
remove use of kernel type to access the first bytes of the initrd memarea.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
remove the printk usage in the zImage. we are not there, yet.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The attached patch causes the various arch specific install.sh scripts to
look for ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel rather than just installkernel (in
both /sbin/ and ~/bin/ where the script already did this). This allows you
to have e.g. arm-linux-installkernel as a handy way to install on your
cross target. It also prevents the script picking up on the host
/sbin/installkernel which causes the script to fall through and do the
install itself (which is what I actually use myself, with $INSTALL_PATH
set).
I don't believe it causes back-compatibility problems since calling the
host installkernel was never likely to work or be what you wanted when
cross compiling anyway. If $CROSS_COMPILE isn't set then nothing changes.
I only use ARM and i386 myself but I figured it couldn't hurt to do the
whole lot. I've cc'd those who I hope are the arch maintainers for files
that I've touched.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
if num has a value of -1, accessing the digits[] array will fail and the
format string will be printed in funny way, or not at all. This happens if
one prints negative numbers.
Just change the code to match lib/vsprintf.c
asm/div64.h cant be used because u64 maps to u32 for this build.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
start.c is not referenced in the arch/ppc64/boot/Makefile
compile tested with the defconfig.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The defines in bootinfo.h are not used, so the include can be removed.
According to Ben, birecs are not used on ppc64:
on ppc64, we made the decision of enforcing the presence of an
OF device-tree and either an OF-like client interface or a kexec
like flattened tree.
so if your bootloader want to say things to the kernel,
it can do so by adding properties to the device-tree
compile-tested with defconfig
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On pSeries systems, according to the platform architecture specs, we are
supposed to be supplying a structure to firmware that tells firmware about
our capabilities, such as which version of the data structures that
describe available memory we are expecting to see. The way we end up
having to supply this data structure is a bit gross, since it was designed
for AIX and doesn't suit us very well. This patch adds the code to supply
this data structure to the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Benjamin Herrenschmidt