[POWERPC] Editable kernel command-line in zImage binary.

zImage will set /chosen/bootargs (if it is otherwise empty) with the
contents of a buffer in the section "__builtin_cmdline".  This permits
tools to edit zImage binaries to set the command-line eventually
processed by vmlinux.

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Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This commit is contained in:
mostrows@watson.ibm.com 2006-06-09 09:06:12 -04:00 committed by Paul Mackerras
parent 204face4fb
commit 30d8caf7c6
2 changed files with 34 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ extern char _vmlinux_end[];
extern char _initrd_start[];
extern char _initrd_end[];
/* A buffer that may be edited by tools operating on a zImage binary so as to
* edit the command line passed to vmlinux (by setting /chosen/bootargs).
* The buffer is put in it's own section so that tools may locate it easier.
*/
static char builtin_cmdline[512]
__attribute__((section("__builtin_cmdline")));
struct addr_range {
unsigned long addr;
unsigned long size;
@ -204,6 +212,23 @@ static int is_elf32(void *hdr)
return 1;
}
void export_cmdline(void* chosen_handle)
{
int len;
char cmdline[2] = { 0, 0 };
if (builtin_cmdline[0] == 0)
return;
len = getprop(chosen_handle, "bootargs", cmdline, sizeof(cmdline));
if (len > 0 && cmdline[0] != 0)
return;
setprop(chosen_handle, "bootargs", builtin_cmdline,
strlen(builtin_cmdline) + 1);
}
void start(unsigned long a1, unsigned long a2, void *promptr, void *sp)
{
int len;
@ -289,6 +314,8 @@ void start(unsigned long a1, unsigned long a2, void *promptr, void *sp)
memmove((void *)vmlinux.addr,(void *)vmlinuz.addr,vmlinuz.size);
}
export_cmdline(chosen_handle);
/* Skip over the ELF header */
#ifdef DEBUG
printf("... skipping 0x%lx bytes of ELF header\n\r",

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@ -31,4 +31,11 @@ static inline int getprop(void *phandle, const char *name,
return call_prom("getprop", 4, 1, phandle, name, buf, buflen);
}
static inline int setprop(void *phandle, const char *name,
void *buf, int buflen)
{
return call_prom("setprop", 4, 1, phandle, name, buf, buflen);
}
#endif /* _PPC_BOOT_PROM_H_ */