mirror_qemu/hw
Laszlo Ersek 07abe45c48 hw/arm: pass pristine kernel image to guest firmware over fw_cfg
Introduce the new boolean field "arm_boot_info.firmware_loaded". When this
field is set, it means that the portion of guest DRAM that the VCPU
normally starts to execute, or the pflash chip that the VCPU normally
starts to execute, has been populated by board-specific code with
full-fledged guest firmware code, before the board calls
arm_load_kernel().

Simultaneously, "arm_boot_info.firmware_loaded" guarantees that the board
code has set up the global firmware config instance, for arm_load_kernel()
to find with fw_cfg_find().

Guest kernel (-kernel) and guest firmware (-bios, -pflash) has always been
possible to specify independently on the command line. The following cases
should be considered:

nr  -bios    -pflash  -kernel  description
             unit#0
--  -------  -------  -------  -------------------------------------------
1   present  present  absent   Board code rejects this case, -bios and
    present  present  present  -pflash unit#0 are exclusive. Left intact
                               by this patch.

2   absent   absent   present  Traditional kernel loading, with qemu's
                               minimal board firmware. Left intact by this
                               patch.

3   absent   present  absent   Preexistent case for booting guest firmware
    present  absent   absent   loaded with -bios or -pflash. Left intact
                               by this patch.

4   absent   absent   absent   Preexistent case for not loading any
                               firmware or kernel up-front. Left intact by
                               this patch.

5   present  absent   present  New case introduced by this patch: kernel
    absent   present  present  image is passed to externally loaded
                               firmware in unmodified form, using fw_cfg.

An easy way to see that this patch doesn't interfere with existing cases
is to realize that "info->firmware_loaded" is constant zero at this point.
Which makes the "outer" condition unchanged, and the "inner" condition
(with the fw_cfg-related code) dead.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1419250305-31062-11-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2014-12-22 23:39:20 +00:00
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9pfs virtio-9p-proxy: improve error messages in connect_namedsocket() 2014-11-02 10:04:34 +03:00
acpi pc: piix4_pm: init legacy PCI hotplug when running on Xen 2014-11-14 11:11:44 +00:00
alpha ide: Update ide_drive_get to be HBA agnostic 2014-10-03 10:30:33 +01:00
arm hw/arm: pass pristine kernel image to guest firmware over fw_cfg 2014-12-22 23:39:20 +00:00
audio ac97: register reset via qom 2014-09-29 10:20:05 +02:00
block trivial patches for 2014-12-11 2014-12-11 18:27:02 +00:00
bt l2cap: fix access to freed memory 2014-08-15 19:12:48 +04:00
char serial: only resample THR interrupt on rising edge of IER.THRI 2014-12-15 17:34:42 +01:00
core hw/loader: split out load_image_gzipped_buffer() 2014-12-22 23:39:19 +00:00
cpu icc_bus: fix typo ICC_BRIGDE -> ICC_BRIDGE 2014-11-03 19:51:56 +03:00
cris hw: Convert from BlockDriverState to BlockBackend, mostly 2014-10-20 14:02:25 +02:00
display cirrus hwcursor fixes. 2014-12-17 19:22:42 +00:00
dma hw/dma/i8257: Silence phony error message 2014-09-16 12:35:02 +02:00
gpio PPC: Add MPC8XXX gpio controller 2014-11-04 23:26:12 +01:00
i2c Fix debug print warning 2014-09-02 22:38:16 +04:00
i386 fw_cfg: move boards to fw_cfg_init_io() / fw_cfg_init_mem() 2014-12-22 23:39:15 +00:00
ide ide: Check validity of logical block size 2014-12-10 10:31:16 +01:00
input hw/input/tsc210x.c: Delete unused array tsc2101_rates 2014-09-29 18:48:48 +01:00
intc - Migration and linuxboot fixes for 2.2 regressions 2014-12-15 16:43:42 +00:00
ipack memory: remove memory_region_destroy 2014-08-18 12:06:21 +02:00
isa vt82c686: fix coverity warning about out-of-bounds write 2014-12-10 11:59:17 +03:00
lm32 hw: Convert from BlockDriverState to BlockBackend, mostly 2014-10-20 14:02:25 +02:00
m68k hw/core/loader: implement address translation in uimage loader 2014-11-03 00:59:10 +03:00
mem pc: pc-dimm: use backend alignment during address auto allocation 2014-11-23 12:12:46 +02:00
microblaze hw/core/loader: implement address translation in uimage loader 2014-11-03 00:59:10 +03:00
mips mips_mipssim: fix use-after-free for filename 2014-11-17 11:41:03 +01:00
misc vfio: use kvm_resamplefds_enabled() 2014-12-15 12:21:01 +01:00
moxie memory: add parameter errp to memory_region_init_ram 2014-09-09 13:41:43 +02:00
net e1000: defer packets until BM enabled 2014-12-19 13:17:06 +00:00
nvram fw_cfg_mem: expose the "data_width" property with fw_cfg_init_mem_wide() 2014-12-22 23:39:18 +00:00
openrisc hw/core/loader: implement address translation in uimage loader 2014-11-03 00:59:10 +03:00
pci pcie: fix improper use of negative value 2014-11-24 20:57:11 +02:00
pci-bridge qdev: HotplugHandler: Rename unplug callback to unplug_request 2014-10-15 05:03:13 +02:00
pci-host - Memory: improve error reporting and avoid crashes on hotplug 2014-09-12 16:55:49 +01:00
pcmcia hmp: Remove "info pcmcia" 2014-10-24 12:19:11 +01:00
ppc fw_cfg: move boards to fw_cfg_init_io() / fw_cfg_init_mem() 2014-12-22 23:39:15 +00:00
s390x virtio: link the rng backend through an alias property 2014-10-30 12:59:27 +00:00
scsi - Migration and linuxboot fixes for 2.2 regressions 2014-12-15 16:43:42 +00:00
sd sdhci: Support SDHCI devices on PCI 2014-12-15 17:34:44 +01:00
sh4 hw: Convert from BlockDriverState to BlockBackend, mostly 2014-10-20 14:02:25 +02:00
sparc fw_cfg: move boards to fw_cfg_init_io() / fw_cfg_init_mem() 2014-12-22 23:39:15 +00:00
sparc64 fw_cfg: move boards to fw_cfg_init_io() / fw_cfg_init_mem() 2014-12-22 23:39:15 +00:00
ssi ssi: xilinx_spi: Initialise CS GPIOs as NULL 2014-08-15 18:54:40 +04:00
timer hpet: increase spelling precision 2014-12-11 20:57:11 +03:00
tpm Drop superfluous conditionals around g_strdup() 2014-12-10 11:30:55 +03:00
tricore target-tricore: check return value before using it 2014-11-02 10:04:34 +03:00
unicore32 memory: add parameter errp to memory_region_init_ram 2014-09-09 13:41:43 +02:00
usb usb: delete redundant brackets in usb_host_handle_control() 2014-12-10 11:24:35 +03:00
virtio virtio-bus: avoid breaking build when open DEBUG switch 2014-12-10 11:18:52 +03:00
watchdog memory: remove memory_region_destroy 2014-08-18 12:06:21 +02:00
xen hw: Convert from BlockDriverState to BlockBackend, mostly 2014-10-20 14:02:25 +02:00
xenpv hw: Convert from BlockDriverState to BlockBackend, mostly 2014-10-20 14:02:25 +02:00
xtensa hw/xtensa/xtfpga: treat uImage load address as virtual 2014-11-03 01:00:37 +03:00
Makefile.objs pc: implement pc-dimm device abstraction 2014-06-19 16:41:47 +03:00