[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 5/6] x86: Refactor the zboot innards so they can be reused with a vboot image
Graeme Russ
graeme.russ at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 11:37:38 CET 2011
Hi Gabe,
On 06/12/11 09:09, Gabe Black wrote:
> If vboot successfully verifies a kernel, it will leave it in place and
> basically ready to boot. The zeropage table which is part of the x86 boot
> protocol is at the end of the kernel, though, instead of the beginning, and
> because the image is already in place there's no need to copy it around.
> This change refactors the code which implements the zboot command so that
> the configuration of the zeropage table and loading the pieces of the
> kernel into memory are done separately. Also, because the command line goes
> before the zeropage table in vboot which is somewhat incompatible with the
> normal protocol, where to put the command line is a now a parameter instead
> of being hard coded.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack at chromium.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/zimage.h | 8 +-
> arch/x86/lib/bootm.c | 21 +++--
> arch/x86/lib/zimage.c | 183 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> 3 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
Applied to u-boot-x86/next
Regards,
Graeme
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