Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] loader: pad kernel size when loaded from a uImage

2010-08-02 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Edgar E. Iglesias edgar.igles...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:56:42AM +0200, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 06:48:24PM -0700, Hollis Blanchard wrote: The kernel's BSS size is lost by mkimage, which only considers file size. As

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] loader: pad kernel size when loaded from a uImage

2010-08-02 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Edgar E. Iglesias edgar.igles...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:59:11AM -0700, Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Edgar E. Iglesias edgar.igles...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:56:42AM +0200, Edgar E. Iglesias

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] loader: pad kernel size when loaded from a uImage

2010-08-02 Thread Edgar E. Iglesias
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:33:54PM -0700, Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Edgar E. Iglesias edgar.igles...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:59:11AM -0700, Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Edgar E. Iglesias edgar.igles...@gmail.com

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] loader: pad kernel size when loaded from a uImage

2010-08-02 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Edgar E. Iglesias edgar.igles...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:33:54PM -0700, Hollis Blanchard wrote: You mean the one architecture, which by the way doesn't even use this API? That doesn't seem like a strong argument to me. Anyways, it's Are we

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] loader: pad kernel size when loaded from a uImage

2010-08-01 Thread Edgar E. Iglesias
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:56:42AM +0200, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 06:48:24PM -0700, Hollis Blanchard wrote: The kernel's BSS size is lost by mkimage, which only considers file size. As a result, loading other blobs (e.g. device tree, initrd) immediately after the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] loader: pad kernel size when loaded from a uImage

2010-07-30 Thread malc
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Hollis Blanchard wrote: The kernel's BSS size is lost by mkimage, which only considers file size. As a result, loading other blobs (e.g. device tree, initrd) immediately after the kernel location can result in them being zeroed by the kernel's BSS initialization code.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] loader: pad kernel size when loaded from a uImage

2010-07-30 Thread Edgar E. Iglesias
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 06:48:24PM -0700, Hollis Blanchard wrote: The kernel's BSS size is lost by mkimage, which only considers file size. As a result, loading other blobs (e.g. device tree, initrd) immediately after the kernel location can result in them being zeroed by the kernel's BSS