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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2014-02-27 13:26:15 -0700
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2014-03-17 20:05:48 -0600
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sandbox: Add os_jump_to_image() to run another executable
For some tests it is useful to be able to run U-Boot again but pass on the same memory contents. Add a function to achieve this. Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/include/os.h b/include/os.h
index fa4e39f..9b5da5c 100644
--- a/include/os.h
+++ b/include/os.h
@@ -253,4 +253,23 @@ int os_write_ram_buf(const char *fname);
*/
int os_read_ram_buf(const char *fname);
+/**
+ * Jump to a new executable image
+ *
+ * This uses exec() to run a new executable image, after putting it in a
+ * temporary file. The same arguments and environment are passed to this
+ * new image, with the addition of:
+ *
+ * -j <filename> Specifies the filename the image was written to. The
+ * calling image may want to delete this at some point.
+ * -m <filename> Specifies the file containing the sandbox memory
+ * (ram_buf) from this image, so that the new image can
+ * have access to this. It also means that the original
+ * memory filename passed to U-Boot will be left intact.
+ *
+ * @param dest Buffer containing executable image
+ * @param size Size of buffer
+ */
+int os_jump_to_image(const void *dest, int size);
+
#endif