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author | RajithaY <rajithax.yerrumsetty@intel.com> | 2017-04-25 03:31:15 -0700 |
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committer | Rajitha Yerrumchetty <rajithax.yerrumsetty@intel.com> | 2017-05-22 06:48:08 +0000 |
commit | bb756eebdac6fd24e8919e2c43f7d2c8c4091f59 (patch) | |
tree | ca11e03542edf2d8f631efeca5e1626d211107e3 /qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.displaying-bmps | |
parent | a14b48d18a9ed03ec191cf16b162206998a895ce (diff) |
Adding qemu as a submodule of KVMFORNFV
This Patch includes the changes to add qemu as a submodule to
kvmfornfv repo and make use of the updated latest qemu for the
execution of all testcase
Change-Id: I1280af507a857675c7f81d30c95255635667bdd7
Signed-off-by:RajithaY<rajithax.yerrumsetty@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.displaying-bmps')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.displaying-bmps b/qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.displaying-bmps deleted file mode 100644 index 331154166..000000000 --- a/qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.displaying-bmps +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -If you are experiencing hangups/data-aborts when trying to display a BMP image, -the following might be relevant to your situation... - -Some architectures cannot handle unaligned memory accesses, and an attempt to -perform one will lead to a data abort. On such architectures it is necessary to -make sure all data is properly aligned, and in many situations simply choosing -a 32 bit aligned address is enough to ensure proper alignment. This is not -always the case when dealing with data that has an internal layout such as a -BMP image: - -BMP images have a header that starts with 2 byte-size fields followed by mostly -32 bit fields. The packed struct that represents this header can be seen below: - -typedef struct bmp_header { - /* Header */ - char signature[2]; - __u32 file_size; - __u32 reserved; - __u32 data_offset; - ... etc -} __attribute__ ((packed)) bmp_header_t; - -When placed in an aligned address such as 0x80a00000, char signature offsets -the __u32 fields into unaligned addresses (in our example 0x80a00002, -0x80a00006, and so on...). When these fields are accessed by U-Boot, a 32 bit -access is generated at a non-32-bit-aligned address, causing a data abort. -The proper alignment for BMP images is therefore: 32-bit-aligned-address + 2. |