linux-user/elfload.c: byteswap function is not working when ELF is big endian

[jordy]

I run qemu-mipsel for ELF with mips MSB(big endian), it always outputs error message: Invalid ELF image for this architecture. For the ELF I run:

$file busybox

ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS-I version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped

The section header is not corrupted(MSB, corrputed section header table also outputs same error as above), when I run ELF with LSB, it works perfectly. I debugged with /linux-user/elfload.c, I am sure that the problem comes from byteswap function. But I don't know how to handle it. I really hope this can be fixed ASAP. Really appreciate your help.

[Peter Maydell (pmaydell)]

The qemu-mipsel binary is for little-endian executables (that's what the "el" part means), so it is expected that it does not handle BE ELF files. Try "qemu-mips", which is the equivalent QEMU binary for big-endian executables.