On aarch64 it is the bootloader's job to uncompress the kernel. UEFI and u-boot bootloaders do this automatically when the kernel is gzip-compressed.
However the qemu -kernel option does not do this. The following command does not work: qemu-system-aarch64 [...] -kernel /boot/vmlinuz because it tries to execute the gzip-compressed data. This commit lets gzip-compressed kernels be uncompressed transparently. Currently this is only done when emulating aarch64. Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> --- hw/arm/boot.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/arm/boot.c b/hw/arm/boot.c index 3d1f4a2..1d541db 100644 --- a/hw/arm/boot.c +++ b/hw/arm/boot.c @@ -444,6 +444,7 @@ static void do_cpu_reset(void *opaque) void arm_load_kernel(ARMCPU *cpu, struct arm_boot_info *info) { CPUState *cs = CPU(cpu); + int allow_compressed_kernels = 0; int kernel_size; int initrd_size; int is_linux = 0; @@ -465,6 +466,7 @@ void arm_load_kernel(ARMCPU *cpu, struct arm_boot_info *info) primary_loader = bootloader_aarch64; kernel_load_offset = KERNEL64_LOAD_ADDR; elf_machine = EM_AARCH64; + allow_compressed_kernels = 1; } else { primary_loader = bootloader; kernel_load_offset = KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR; @@ -510,6 +512,13 @@ void arm_load_kernel(ARMCPU *cpu, struct arm_boot_info *info) kernel_size = load_uimage(info->kernel_filename, &entry, NULL, &is_linux); } + /* On aarch64, it's the bootloader's job to uncompress the kernel. */ + if (allow_compressed_kernels && kernel_size < 0) { + entry = info->loader_start + kernel_load_offset; + kernel_size = load_image_gzipped(info->kernel_filename, entry, + info->ram_size - kernel_load_offset); + is_linux = 1; + } if (kernel_size < 0) { entry = info->loader_start + kernel_load_offset; kernel_size = load_image_targphys(info->kernel_filename, entry, -- 2.0.4