[PATCH V2 7/9] powerpc/ps3: Add check for otheros image size
Geoff Levand
geoff at infradead.org
Mon Mar 30 14:11:33 AEDT 2020
The ps3's otheros flash loader has a size limit of 16 MiB for the
uncompressed image. If that limit will be reached output the
flash image file as 'otheros-too-big.bld'.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>
---
arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
index 35ace40d9fc2..ab1e3ddc79f3 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
@@ -571,7 +571,20 @@ ps3)
count=$overlay_size bs=1
odir="$(dirname "$ofile.bin")"
- rm -f "$odir/otheros.bld"
- gzip -n --force -9 --stdout "$ofile.bin" > "$odir/otheros.bld"
+
+ # The ps3's flash loader has a size limit of 16 MiB for the uncompressed
+ # image. If a compressed image that exceeded this limit is written to
+ # flash the loader will decompress that image until the 16 MiB limit is
+ # reached, then enter the system reset vector of the partially decompressed
+ # image. No warning is issued.
+ rm -f "$odir"/{otheros,otheros-too-big}.bld
+ size=$(${CROSS}nm --no-sort --radix=d "$ofile" | egrep ' _end$' | cut -d' ' -f1)
+ bld="otheros.bld"
+ if [ $size -gt $((0x1000000)) ]; then
+ bld="otheros-too-big.bld"
+ echo " INFO: Uncompressed kernel is too large to program into PS3 flash memory;" \
+ "size=0x$(printf "%x\n" $size), limit=0x1000000."
+ fi
+ gzip -n --force -9 --stdout "$ofile.bin" > "$odir/$bld"
;;
esac
--
2.20.1
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