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[v5,1/3] loader: Allow ELF loader to auto-detect the ELF arch

Message ID 2441e3462852d2cadaf81272df7be5da802d0259.1463069453.git.alistair.francis@xilinx.com
State New
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Commit Message

Alistair Francis May 12, 2016, 4:13 p.m. UTC 
If the caller didn't specify an architecture for the ELF machine
the load_elf() function will auto detect it based on the ELF file.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
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 hw/core/loader.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/hw/core/loader.c b/hw/core/loader.c
index c049957..6b8be6b 100644
--- a/hw/core/loader.c
+++ b/hw/core/loader.c
@@ -419,6 +419,7 @@  int load_elf(const char *filename, uint64_t (*translate_fn)(void *, uint64_t),
 {
     int fd, data_order, target_data_order, must_swab, ret = ELF_LOAD_FAILED;
     uint8_t e_ident[EI_NIDENT];
+    uint16_t e_machine;
 
     fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);
     if (fd < 0) {
@@ -451,6 +452,15 @@  int load_elf(const char *filename, uint64_t (*translate_fn)(void *, uint64_t),
         goto fail;
     }
 
+    if (elf_machine < 1) {
+        /* The caller didn't specify and ARCH, we can figure it out */
+        lseek(fd, 0x12, SEEK_SET);
+        if (read(fd, &e_machine, sizeof(e_machine)) != sizeof(e_machine)) {
+            goto fail;
+        }
+        elf_machine = e_machine;
+    }
+
     lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
     if (e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64) {
         ret = load_elf64(filename, fd, translate_fn, translate_opaque, must_swab,