[SLOF] [PATCH slof 00/10] ext4, gpt, LE ELF

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 31/12/2019 14:04, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> This is to make 'boot disk:2,boot\zImage' work when /dev/sda2 is
> rather huge ext4 partition with a little endian zImage.
> Found few issues on the way.
> 
> 10/10 is the most questionable - what is the right of doing it?
> By default SLOF looks at ELF, that says "0 is base address" but
> SLOF itself claims 16KB in slof/fs/claim.fs (grep for
> MIN-RAM-RESERVE) so the images have to be loaded elsewhere but
> where?


Anyone, ping?

I see these as a general improvement of rarely executed paths so I am
quite comfortable with pushing them out except 10/10 (which is a
debugging hack).

If anyone has objections, please speak now :) Thanks,


> Please comment. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Alexey Kardashevskiy (10):
>   disk-label: Prepare for extenting
>   disk-label: Support Linux GPT partition type
>   disk-label: Try ext2 filesystem when booting from GPT partition
>   ext2: Prepare for extending
>   ext2: Rename group-desc-size
>   ext2: Read size of group descriptors
>   ext2: Read all 64bit of inode number
>   ext2/4: Add basic extent tree support
>   elf64: Add LE64 ABIv1/2 support for loading images to given address
>   [HACK] boot: Force loading images at 64MB
> 
>  lib/libelf/elf.c               |   8 +++
>  slof/fs/boot.fs                |   1 +
>  slof/fs/packages/disk-label.fs |  66 +++++++++---------
>  slof/fs/packages/ext2-files.fs | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  4 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 

-- 
Alexey