Boot from memory device path #305
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Convert the EFI device path protocol structure into a Rust structure in order to be able to handle different device path types (e.g. memory backed) in the future. Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
Rather than construct the device path when creating the image handle do so earlier so that ultimately a NULL path could be provided in the case of loading from memory. Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
Add a DevicePath::generate() method to generate the device path from the parsed device path. Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
Previously the path in the FileDevicePathProtocol was limited to 128 ascii characters. Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
This will prevent it clashing when generating other types of device paths. Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
Grub will load the kernel into memory and ask the firmware to parse that as a PE binary. In order to reuse the existing infrastructure the memory range provided is turned into a struct that implements the fat::Read trait. Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
Remove some duplicated code for loading an image by extracting it out to its own function. Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <[email protected]>
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GRUB on (at least RISC-V) loads the guest kernel directly into memory and then
expects the firmware to parse it from there - it does this by using a device
path of type PCI and subtype memory mapped.
With this change the Linux kernel boots on RISC-V if the kernel command line is
modified to specify a fixed rootfs as there are issues with the initramfs.