aarch64: Allow -kernel option to take a gzip-compressed kernel.
authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:56:28 +0000 (18:56 +0100)
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:02:40 +0000 (19:02 +0100)
commit6f5d3cbe8892367026526a7deed0ceecc700a7ad
tree18357591448ac1f95e1482f3c3ef3e63117e7a6e
parent235e74afcb85285a8e35e75f0cb6e6811267bb75
aarch64: Allow -kernel option to take a gzip-compressed kernel.

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 <rjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-id: 1407831259-2115-3-git-send-email-rjones@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
hw/arm/boot.c