cbfstool: add ELF writing support

In order to generate rmodules in the format of ELF files
there needs to be support for writing out ELF files. The
ELF writer is fairly simple. It accpets sections that can
be associated with an optional buffer (file data). For each
section flagged with SHF_ALLOC a PT_LOAD segment is generated.
There isn't smart merging of the sections into a single PT_LOAD
segment.

Change-Id: I4d1a11f2e65be2369fb3f8bff350cbb28e14c89d
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/5377
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/util/cbfstool/elfparsing.h b/util/cbfstool/elfparsing.h
index 113301aae2..048d31aa2b 100644
--- a/util/cbfstool/elfparsing.h
+++ b/util/cbfstool/elfparsing.h
@@ -74,4 +74,35 @@ elf_headers(const struct buffer *pinput,
 	    Elf64_Phdr **pphdr,
 	    Elf64_Shdr **pshdr);
 
+/* ELF writing support. */
+struct elf_writer;
+
+/*
+ * Initialize a new ELF writer. Deafult machine type, endianness, etc is
+ * copied from the passed in Elf64_Ehdr. Returns NULL on failure, valid
+ * pointer on success.
+ */
+struct elf_writer *elf_writer_init(const Elf64_Ehdr *ehdr);
+
+/*
+ * Clean up any internal state represented by ew. Aftewards the elf_writer
+ * is invalid.
+ */
+void elf_writer_destroy(struct elf_writer *ew);
+
+/*
+ * Add a section to the ELF file. Section type, flags, and memsize are
+ * maintained from the passed in Elf64_Shdr. The buffer represents the
+ * content of the section while the name is the name of section itself.
+ * Returns < 0 on error, 0 on success.
+ */
+int elf_writer_add_section(struct elf_writer *ew, const Elf64_Shdr *shdr,
+                           struct buffer *contents, const char *name);
+
+/*
+ * Serialize the ELF file to the output buffer. Return < 0 on error,
+ * 0 on success.
+ */
+int elf_writer_serialize(struct elf_writer *ew, struct buffer *out);
+
 #endif /* ELFPARSING_H */