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Unpack Android's bootimg into kernel image and ramdisk
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import struct | |
import sys | |
import gzip | |
fn = sys.argv[1] | |
f = open(fn) | |
if f.read(8) != 'ANDROID!': | |
sys.exit('Not a mkbootimg file.') | |
_header = struct.unpack('<' + 'I' * 10, f.read(10 * 4)) | |
ksize, kaddr, rsize, raddr, ssize, saddr, taddr, pagesize, _, _ = _header | |
bootname = f.read(16) | |
cmdline = f.read(512) | |
id = f.read(8 * 4) | |
extra = f.read(1024) | |
def trim(s): return s.rstrip('\0') | |
def npages(s): return (s + pagesize - 1) // pagesize | |
def nbytes(s): return (s + pagesize - 1) // pagesize * pagesize | |
print 'Pagesize:', pagesize | |
print 'Bootname:', repr(trim(bootname)) | |
print 'Cmdline:', repr(trim(bootname)) | |
print 'Id:', repr(trim(id)) | |
print 'Extra:', repr(trim(extra)) | |
# from mkbootimg.c: | |
base = 0x10000000; | |
kernel_offset = 0x00008000; | |
ramdisk_offset = 0x01000000; | |
second_offset = 0x00f00000; | |
tags_offset = 0x00000100; | |
print 'Kernel address:', hex(kaddr), 'default:', hex(base + kernel_offset) | |
print 'Ramdisk address:', hex(raddr), 'default:', hex(base + ramdisk_offset) | |
print '2stage address:', hex(saddr), 'default:', hex(base + second_offset) | |
print 'Tags address:', hex(taddr), 'default:', hex(base + tags_offset) | |
assert f.tell() <= pagesize | |
f.seek(pagesize) | |
def read_pages(name, size): | |
flashsize = nbytes(size) | |
data = f.read(flashsize) | |
print 'First 16 bytes of', name, repr(data[:16]) | |
print 'Flash size:', flashsize, 'size:', size | |
target = fn + '.' + name | |
print 'Writing', name, 'to', target | |
with open(target, 'w') as ff: | |
ff.write(data[:size]) | |
read_pages('kernel', ksize) | |
read_pages('ramdisk.gz', rsize) | |
read_pages('2stage', ssize) | |
print 'Decompressing ramdisk' | |
ramdisk = gzip.open(fn + '.ramdisk.gz').read() | |
with open(fn + '.ramdisk', 'w') as ff: | |
ff.write(ramdisk) |
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