The binary Linux kernel image is built to be loaded to memory address
0x0 but the first 64 kbyte contain an IPL header that is not used for
disk IPL. zIPL strips away this IPL header when writing IPL records to
disk, loads the remaining data to memory address 0x10000 and uses the
memory area below that for its own boot loader code.
The Secure Boot firmware feature checks the integrity of an installed
image during IPL using a checksum that was generated for the full image.
Since the checksum becomes invalid if the IPL header is removed, zIPL
must be changed to write the full image to disk.
This patch modifies the zIPL logic to no longer strip away the IPL
header. Instead the full image is loaded to a higher memory address and
relocated by the stage 3 boot loader code to its final location.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
In the zipl Makefile macros are defined with the sole purpose to define
other macros in zipl.h. Remove this unnecessary indirection.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The macro names are a mixture of the original file system dumper (FSDUMP)
and its extension to cut the file system and write directly to a partition
(PART). The original dumper no longer exists and today the feature is
called zfcpdump. Prevent confusion by renaming the macros to fit todays
usage.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The BootLoaderSpec (BLS) defines a file format for boot configurations,
so bootloaders can parse these files and create their boot menu entries
by using the information provided by them [0].
This allow to configure the boot items as drop-in files in a directory
instead of having to parse and modify a bootloader configuration file.
If the /boot/loader/entries exists and there are BLS files there, then
these are parsed and configuration sections are added without the need
to have these in a zipl.conf file.
A different BLS directory can be specified from the command line using
the --blsdir option.
[0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/
GitHub-ID: #28
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This commit is based on the s390-tools-1.39.0 version.
Changes on top of s390-tools-1.39.0:
- Add MIT license to all source files
- Add LICENSE file
- Transform REAMDE to README.md (markdown)
- Add AUTHORS.md file
- Add CONTRIBUTING.md file
- Move changelog from README to CHANGELOG.md file
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Stefan Haberland