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    hw/core/loader: Let load_elf() populate a field with CPU-specific flags · 6cdda0ff
    Aleksandar Markovic authored
    
    While loading the executable, some platforms (like AVR) need to
    detect CPU type that executable is built for - and, with this patch,
    this is enabled by reading the field 'e_flags' of the ELF header of
    the executable in question. The change expands functionality of
    the following functions:
    
      - load_elf()
      - load_elf_as()
      - load_elf_ram()
      - load_elf_ram_sym()
    
    The argument added to these functions is called 'pflags' and is of
    type 'uint32_t*' (that matches 'pointer to 'elf_word'', 'elf_word'
    being the type of the field 'e_flags', in both 32-bit and 64-bit
    variants of ELF header). Callers are allowed to pass NULL as that
    argument, and in such case no lookup to the field 'e_flags' will
    happen, and no information will be returned, of course.
    
    CC: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
    CC: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
    CC: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
    CC: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
    CC: Thomas Huth <huth@tuxfamily.org>
    CC: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
    CC: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
    CC: Aleksandar Rikalo <aleksandar.rikalo@rt-rk.com>
    CC: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
    CC: Jia Liu <proljc@gmail.com>
    CC: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    CC: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
    CC: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
    CC: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
    CC: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
    CC: Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>
    CC: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
    CC: KONRAD Frederic <frederic.konrad@adacore.com>
    CC: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAleksandar Rikalo <aleksandar.rikalo@rt-rk.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Rolnik <mrolnik@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAleksandar Markovic <amarkovic@wavecomp.com>
    Message-Id: <1580079311-20447-24-git-send-email-aleksandar.markovic@rt-rk.com>
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    hw/core/loader: Let load_elf() populate a field with CPU-specific flags
    Aleksandar Markovic authored
    
    While loading the executable, some platforms (like AVR) need to
    detect CPU type that executable is built for - and, with this patch,
    this is enabled by reading the field 'e_flags' of the ELF header of
    the executable in question. The change expands functionality of
    the following functions:
    
      - load_elf()
      - load_elf_as()
      - load_elf_ram()
      - load_elf_ram_sym()
    
    The argument added to these functions is called 'pflags' and is of
    type 'uint32_t*' (that matches 'pointer to 'elf_word'', 'elf_word'
    being the type of the field 'e_flags', in both 32-bit and 64-bit
    variants of ELF header). Callers are allowed to pass NULL as that
    argument, and in such case no lookup to the field 'e_flags' will
    happen, and no information will be returned, of course.
    
    CC: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
    CC: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
    CC: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
    CC: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
    CC: Thomas Huth <huth@tuxfamily.org>
    CC: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
    CC: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
    CC: Aleksandar Rikalo <aleksandar.rikalo@rt-rk.com>
    CC: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
    CC: Jia Liu <proljc@gmail.com>
    CC: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    CC: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
    CC: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
    CC: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
    CC: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
    CC: Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>
    CC: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
    CC: KONRAD Frederic <frederic.konrad@adacore.com>
    CC: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAleksandar Rikalo <aleksandar.rikalo@rt-rk.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Rolnik <mrolnik@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAleksandar Markovic <amarkovic@wavecomp.com>
    Message-Id: <1580079311-20447-24-git-send-email-aleksandar.markovic@rt-rk.com>