[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] hw/arm: Improve detection of Linux kernels

[Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>]

Am 09.08.2010 16:48, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> ELF images were not detected as linux kernels.
>
> Assume that they are linux kernels if the kernel name contains 'vmlinux'.
>
> Cc: Paul Brook<paul@codesourcery.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil<weil@mail.berlios.de>
> ---
>   hw/arm_boot.c |    6 ++++--
>   1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/arm_boot.c b/hw/arm_boot.c
> index 620550b..e73ef42 100644
> --- a/hw/arm_boot.c
> +++ b/hw/arm_boot.c
> @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ void arm_load_kernel(CPUState *env, struct arm_boot_info *info)
>       int kernel_size;
>       int initrd_size;
>       int n;
> -    int is_linux = 0;
> +    int is_linux;
>       uint64_t elf_entry;
>       target_phys_addr_t entry;
>       int big_endian;
> @@ -225,7 +225,9 @@ void arm_load_kernel(CPUState *env, struct arm_boot_info *info)
>       big_endian = 0;
>   #endif
>
> -    /* Assume that raw images are linux kernels, and ELF images are not.  */
> +    /* Assume that raw images are linux kernels, and ELF images
> +       are not (unless the kernel filename contains 'vmlinux'). */
> +    is_linux = (strstr(info->kernel_filename, "vmlinux") != NULL);
>       kernel_size = load_elf(info->kernel_filename, NULL, NULL,&elf_entry,
>                              NULL, NULL, big_endian, ELF_MACHINE, 1);
>       entry = elf_entry;
>    


The patch is still missing in qemu master. Is anything missing,
or can it be applied?