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    loader: Add data swap option to load-elf · 7ef295ea
    Peter Crosthwaite 提交于
    Some CPUs are of an opposite data-endianness to other components in the
    system. Sometimes elfs have the data sections layed out with this CPU
    data-endianness accounting for when loaded via the CPU, so byte swaps
    (relative to other system components) will occur.
    
    The leading example, is ARM's BE32 mode, which is is basically LE with
    address manipulation on half-word and byte accesses to access the
    hw/byte reversed address. This means that word data is invariant
    across LE and BE32. This also means that instructions are still LE.
    The expectation is that the elf will be loaded via the CPU in this
    endianness scheme, which means the data in the elf is reversed at
    compile time.
    
    As QEMU loads via the system memory directly, rather than the CPU, we
    need a mechanism to reverse elf data endianness to implement this
    possibility.
    Reviewed-by: NPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: NPeter Crosthwaite <crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: NPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
    7ef295ea
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