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Paul Gortmaker
3b2663ca84 mips: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include <linux/init.h>.  Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6320/
2014-01-24 22:39:56 +01:00
Antony Pavlov
dc4d7b377c MIPS: ZBOOT: gather string functions into string.c
In the worst case this adds less then 128 bytes of code
but on the other hand this makes code organization more clear.

Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6344/
2014-01-24 22:39:55 +01:00
Antony Pavlov
59197e4471 MIPS: JZ4740: reuse UART0 address macro for vmlinuz debug port
Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5927/
2014-01-23 13:02:34 +01:00
Florian Fainelli
31c4867d6c MIPS: ZBOOT: Support LZ4 compression scheme
Add support for the LZ4 compression scheme in the ZBOOT decompression
stub, in order to support it we need to:

- select the "lz4" compression tool to compress the vmlinux.bin
  payload
- memcpy() is also required for decompress_unlz4.c so we share the
  implementation between GZIP, XZ and now LZ4

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: blogic@openwrt.org
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5829/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2013-10-29 21:24:34 +01:00
Florian Fainelli
e970a72ec1 MIPS: ZBOOT: Define program header for text loadable segment
There is currently no corresponding ELF program header for the "text"
loadable segment which is confusing for some bootloader out there such
as CFE because it expects to find a program header matching the segment
it is trying to load. The Linux kernel ELF binary "vmlinux" has a
similar program header for the text segment so we just mimic this here
too.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: blogic@openwrt.org
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5827/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2013-10-29 21:24:30 +01:00
Florian Fainelli
4e23eb631c MIPS: ZBOOT: Support XZ compression scheme
Add support for the XZ compression scheme in the ZBOOT decompression
stub, in order to support it we need to:

- select the "xzkern" compression tool to compress the vmlinux.bin
  payload
- link with ashldi3.o for xz_dec_run() to work
- memcpy() is also required for decompress_unxz.c so we share the
  implementation between GZIP and XZ

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: blogic@openwrt.org
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5818/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2013-10-29 21:24:28 +01:00
James Hogan
3185557d1a MIPS: Refactor load/entry address calculations
The vmlinux load address and entry address is calculated in multiple
places:
 - arch/mips/Makefile defines load-y from CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START (or
   defined by the platform) and passes it to
   arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile.
 - arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile calculates kernel entry using nm.
 - arch/mips/lasat/image/Makefile calculates both load and entry address
   using nm.

Lets combine these in the main Makefile and then pass them as Make
parameters to each of the three boot image Makefiles (in boot/,
boot/compressed, lasat/image/). The boot/ Makefile doesn't currently use
them, but will soon need to for U-Boot image targets.

The existing load-y definition is used in preference to calculating the
load address using nm.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5794/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2013-09-03 17:58:37 +02:00
Markos Chandras
23df34155b MIPS: Boot: Compressed: Remove -fstack-protector from CFLAGS
When building with -fstack-protector, gcc emits the __stack_chk_guard and
__stack_chk_fail symbols to check for stack stability. These symbols are
defined in vmlinux but the generated vmlinux.bin that is used to create
the compressed vmlinuz image has no symbol table so the linker can't find
these symbols during the final linking phase.  As a result of which, we
need either to redefine these symbols just for the compressed image or drop
the -fstack-protector option when building the compressed image. This patch
implements the latter of two options.

Fixes the following linking problem:

dbg.c:(.text+0x7c): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
dbg.c:(.text+0x80): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
dbg.c:(.text+0xd4): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
dbg.c:(.text+0xec): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'

[ralf@linux-mips.org: I'm applying this before the patch that actually adds
stack protector support for MIPS.  This means, it will not be possible
to trigger above error message with any commit from the tree but rather
they are what one would hit without this commit.]

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5575/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2013-07-01 15:10:41 +02:00
Jayachandran C
8f0b043045 MIPS: Netlogic: Support compressed kernel
Add SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT and SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT_UART16550 config options
for XLR and XLP.

Update boot/compressed/uart-16550.c to add UART port for XLR and XLP.

Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jchandra@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5417/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2013-06-13 17:46:41 +02:00
Jayachandran C
d6a5078459 MIPS: boot: Fixes for compressed/uart-16550.c
Fix uart-16550.c for adding XLR/XLP support, changes are:
* Make register read/write use volatile pointers
* Support 32 bit IO read/write
* Increase timeout in waiting for UART LSR

Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jchandra@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5416/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2013-06-13 17:46:41 +02:00
Ralf Baechle
7034228792 MIPS: Whitespace cleanup.
Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2013-02-01 10:00:22 +01:00
Manuel Lauss
bd8510df88 MIPS: Alchemy: Single kernel for DB1200/1300/1550
Combine support for the DB1200/PB1200, DB1300 and DB1550 boards into
a single kernel image.

defconfig-generated image verified on DB1200, DB1300 and DB1550.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4335/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-10-11 11:11:20 +02:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell
f9c9affc57 MIPS: Enable vmlinuz for JZ4740
This patch adds support for building a compressed kernel for the JZ4740
architecture.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@treewalker.org>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/3563/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-07-23 13:56:21 +01:00
Manuel Lauss
64cd04d0cf MIPS: Alchemy: Basic support for the DB1300 board.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2867/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2919/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2928/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2011-12-07 22:02:06 +00:00
Manuel Lauss
80130204b4 MIPS: Alchemy: Rewrite UART setup and constants.
Detect CPU type at runtime and setup uarts accordingly; also clean up the
uart base address mess in the process as far as possible.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
To: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2352/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org
2011-05-19 09:55:45 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
893d20fbae MIPS: Fix calc_vmlinuz_load_addr build warnings.
HOSTCC  arch/mips/boot/compressed/calc_vmlinuz_load_addr
arch/mips/boot/compressed/calc_vmlinuz_load_addr.c: In function 'main':
arch/mips/boot/compressed/calc_vmlinuz_load_addr.c:35:2: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int *', but argument 3 has type 'uint64_t *'
arch/mips/boot/compressed/calc_vmlinuz_load_addr.c:54:2: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'uint64_t'

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2011-05-10 18:15:25 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
547af560dd Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  MIPS: Enable ISA_DMA_API config to fix build failure
  MIPS: 32-bit: Fix build failure in asm/fcntl.h
  MIPS: Remove all generated vmlinuz* files on "make clean"
  MIPS: do_sigaltstack() expects userland pointers
  MIPS: Fix error values in case of bad_stack
  MIPS: Sanitize restart logics
  MIPS: secure_computing, syscall audit: syscall number should in r2, not r0.
  MIPS: Don't block signals if we'd failed to setup a sigframe
2010-10-18 13:10:36 -07:00
Wu Zhangjin
ec3352925b MIPS: Remove all generated vmlinuz* files on "make clean"
[Ralf: I changed the patch to explicitly list all files to be deleted out
of paranoia.]

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1590/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-18 16:59:04 +01:00
Shmulik Ladkani
2ccc5b150f MIPS: Calculate VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS based on the length of vmlinux.bin
Fix VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS calculation to be based on the length of
vmlinux.bin, the actual uncompressed kernel binary.

Previously it was based on the length of KBUILD_IMAGE (the unstripped ELF
vmlinux), which is bigger than vmlinux.bin.  As a result, vmlinuz was
loaded into a memory address higher then actually needed - a problem for
small memory platforms.

Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: alex@digriz.org.uk
Cc: manuel.lauss@googlemail.com
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1564/
Acked-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-04 18:34:00 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
5089ca9d31 MIPS: strip the un-needed sections of vmlinuz
This patch use "strip -s" to strip the .symtab and .strtab sections of
vmlinuz.

Note: This patch is based on http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1324/

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1383/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-08-05 13:26:34 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
3c4b7fde94 MIPS: Clean up the calculation of VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS
We have calculated VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS in shell, which is indecipherable. This
patch rewrites it in C.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
To: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Cc: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1324/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-08-05 13:26:33 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
1e1a77d698 MIPS: Clean up arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
- Remove several outdated comments
- Clearify the definition of zimage_start and zimage_size and the their
  usage

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1382/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-08-05 13:26:32 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
bdbffd9b8d MIPS: Clean up arch/mips/boot/compressed/ld.script
- Remove unused symbols: _fdata, _text; only _edata and _end are needed by
  head.S
- Remove unused sections: .sbss, .stab, .gptab.sdata, .gptab.sbss
- Change the alignment to 16 bytes to ensure it is greater than any
  fundamental type of a MIPS compiler.
- Clean up comments

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1381/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-08-05 13:26:32 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
c853d945d3 MIPS: Unify the suffix of compressed vmlinux.bin
The compressed vmlinux.bin is only a temp file so it's ok to use the same
suffix .z for them (.gz,.lzo,.lzma...) to remove several lines and simpify
the maintenance (no need to add the "suffix_$(xxx) := suffix" line).

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
To: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Cc: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1323/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

---
2010-08-05 13:26:31 +01:00
Manuel Lauss
42a4f17dc3 MIPS: Alchemy: remove SOC_AU1X00 in favor of MIPS_ALCHEMY
Remove the CONFIG_SOC_AU1X00 Kconfig symbol since its job can also be done
by MACH_ALCHEMY, now renamed to MIPS_ALCHEMY.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
To: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1461/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-08-05 13:26:06 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
35eaa1e9c9 MIPS: Refactor arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
- use hostprogs-y for the elf2ecoff
- list all *.o file in targets
- renamed obj-y to vmlinuzobjs-y (it was confusing to re-use a kbuild variable)
- fix all uses of if_changed/cmd
- use kbuild rules to beautify output
- update clean-file to clean vmlinuz.* in top-level directory

- simplied logic in arch/mips/Makefile for compressed targets

The net result is a more kbuild conformant Makefile but
readability did not increase.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
To: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1304/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-08-05 13:25:58 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
f86a69b15f MIPS: Make the debugging of compressed kernel configurable
This patch adds a new DEBUG_ZBOOT option to allow the users to enable it
to debug the compressed kernel support for a new board and this optoin
should be disabled to reduce the kernel image size and speed up the
kernel booting procedure when the compressed kernel support is stable.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/918/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-02-27 12:53:24 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
e52dd9fc6b MIPS: Simplify the weak annotation with __weak
Found by

$ find arch/mips/ -name "*.c" | xargs -i grep -H weak {} | grep -v __weak

[Ralf: Made this bulletproof by including <linux/compiler.h>]

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/874/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-02-27 12:53:17 +01:00
Manuel Lauss
aae7e8da80 MIPS: Alchemy: debug output for compressed kernels
Hook up the compressed debug output for all Alchemy systems supported
by current kernel codebase.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
To: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/879/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-02-27 12:53:16 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
dac2965c43 MIPS: Cleanup the Makefile of compressed kernel support
This patch removes a useless "\" (line break) and tunes the format of a
long line.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/869/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-02-27 12:53:15 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
f7a904dffe MIPS: Loongson: Change the Email address of Wu Zhangjin
Currently wuzj@lemote.com is not usable; change it to wuzhangjin@gmail.com.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: yanh@lemote.com
Cc: huhb@lemote.com
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/829/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-02-27 12:53:12 +01:00
Alexander Clouter
9c4a6fce20 MIPS: Fix vmlinuz build for 32bit-only math shells
POSIX requires $((<expression>)) arithmetic in sh only to have long
arithmetic so on 32-bit sh binaries might do only 32-bit arithmetic but
the arithmetic done in arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile needs 64-bit.

I play with the AR7 platform, so VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS is
0xffffffff94100000, and for an example 4MiB kernel
VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS is made out to be:
----
alex@berk:~$ bash -c 'printf "%x\n" $((0xffffffff94100000 + 0x400000))'
ffffffff94500000
alex@berk:~$ dash -c 'printf "%x\n" $((0xffffffff94100000 + 0x400000))'
80000000003fffff
----

The former is obviously correct whilst the later breaks things royally.

Fortunately working with only the lower 32bit's works for both bash and
dash:
----
$ bash -c 'printf "%x\n" $((0x94100000 + 0x400000))'
94500000
$ dash -c 'printf "%x\n" $((0x94100000 + 0x400000))'
94500000
----

So, we can split the original 64bit string to two parts, and only
calculate the low 32bit part, which is big enough (1GiB kernel sizes
anyone?) for a normal Linux kernel image file, now, we calculate the
VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS like this:

1. if present, append top 32bit of VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS" as a prefix
2. get the sum of the low 32bit of VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS + VMLINUX_SIZE

This patch fixes vmlinuz kernel builds on systems where only a
32bit-only math shell is available.

Patch Changelog:
  Version 2
    - simplified method by using 'expr' for 'substr' and making it work
	with dash once again
  Version 1
    - Revert the removals of '-n "$(VMLINUX_SIZE)"' to avoid the error
        of "make clean"
    - Consider more cases of the VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS
  Version 0
    - initial release

Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Acked-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/861/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-01-28 00:03:30 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
fe1d45e086 MIPS: Add support of LZO-compressed kernels
The necessary changes to the x86 Kconfig and boot/compressed to allow the
use of this new compression method.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/857/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-01-28 00:03:30 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
d4d9a553d7 MIPS: Cleanup and Fixup of compressed kernel support
o Remove the .initrd section.  The initrd section was already handled
   when vmlinux was linked.
 o Discard .MIPS.options, .options, .pdr, .reginfo, .comment and .note
   sections.  If .MIPS.options is not removed, kernels compiled with gcc
   3.4.6 will not boot.
 o Clean up the file format.
 o Remove several other unneeded sections.

Tested with GCC 3.4.6 and 4.4.1 with and without initrd.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/785/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-01-12 18:19:29 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
1b93b3c3e9 MIPS: Add support for GZIP / BZIP2 / LZMA compressed kernel images
This patch helps to generate smaller kernel images for linux-MIPS,

Here is the effect when using lzma:

$ ls -sh vmlinux
7.1M vmlinux
$ ls -sh vmlinuz
1.5M vmlinuz

Have tested the 32bit kernel on Qemu/Malta and 64bit kernel on FuLoong
Mini PC. both of them work well. and also, tested by Alexander Clouter
on an AR7 based Linksys WAG54Gv2, and by Manuel Lauss on an Alchemy
board.

This -v2 version incorporate the feedback from Ralf, and add the
following changes:

1. add .ecoff, .bin, .erec format support
2. only enable it and the debug source code for the machines we tested
3. a dozen of fixups and cleanups

and if you want to enable it for your board, please try to select
SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT for it, and if the board have an 16550 compatible
uart, you can select SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT_UART16550 directly. and then
sending the relative patches to Ralf.

Tested-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-12-17 01:56:56 +00:00