+++ Christopher Covington [2013-11-27 11:17 -0500]: > Hi Wookey, > > > There is a wiki page somewhere for wrapping your own kernel with > > bootwrapper foo, but I found it much easier to use a handy internal tool > > which > > rewrites the kernel command line inside a .axf file, which makes it a > > one-liner to turn a working OE kernel .axf from linaro snapshots into > > one that works for an ubuntu image. > > > > This is nothing more than some unpacking + objdump runes, but of course > > being arm-written software (by Jim) would probably take months of > > tiresome effort arguing with lawyers to get it released, so you can't use > > it. :-( > > > > It could get turned into a wiki page of runes if there is demand... > > In my opinion, the nicer solution is to port the semihosting boot wrapper to > 64-bit. We've done that internally, but don't currently have approval to share > that work. It's not too difficult though--basically just drop the AArch64 > boot.S into the 32-bit bootwrapper code with semihosting support and you're > most of the way there. A simulator with instruction tracing or stepping is > probably necessary for debugging.
I didn't understand a lot of those words, but it really doesn't sound easier than 'a little shell script that lets me change the command line in a working .axf kernel'. Turns out said shell script was actually written wearing a linaro hat so I'll stick it somewhere and add a wiki page. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
