This patch adds an option to use XZ compression for the kernel image.
Currently this is only enabled for 64-bit Book3S targets, which is
roughly equivalent to the platforms that use the kernel's zImage
wrapper, and that have been tested.
The bulk of the 32-bit platforms and 64-bit BookE use uboot images,
which relies on uboot implementing XZ. In future we can enable XZ
support for those targets once someone has tested it.
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This patch adds an OPAL console backend to the powerpc boot wrapper so
that decompression failures inside the wrapper can be reported to the
user. This is important since it typically indicates data corruption in
the firmware and other nasty things.
Currently this only works when building a little endian kernel. When
compiling a 64 bit BE kernel the wrapper is always build 32 bit to be
compatible with some 32 bit firmwares. BE support will be added at a
later date. Another limitation of this is that only the "raw" type of
OPAL console is supported, however machines that provide a hvsi console
also provide a raw console so this is not an issue in practice.
Actually-written-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
[mpe: Move #ifdef __powerpc64__ to avoid warnings on 32-bit]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Add signed types to the powerpc zImage bootwrapper. These are needed by the
PS3 hcall interface.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This abstracts the operations used in the bootwrapper, and defines
the operations needed for the bootwrapper to run on an OF platform.
The operations have been divided up into platform ops (platform_ops),
firmware ops (fw_ops), device tree ops (dt_ops), and console ops
(console_ops).
The proper operations will be hooked up at runtime to provide the
functionality that you need.
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Oliver O'Halloran
Geoff Levand
Mark A. Greer