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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch |
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Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:03:54 +0100 |
On 25 June 2012 09:55, Peter Crosthwaite
<address@hidden> wrote:
> As for architectures, I can speak for Microblaze and the PPC
> bootloader for virtex_ml507. The DTB will blob in regardless of
> whether its an elf or not, so no is_linux switch is needed there for
> my Linux elfs. There is no functional difference between linux and not
> linux in those bootloaders.
Yes, it is exactly the "on architecture X we behave like this and
on architecture Y we do something else" that I dislike, and this is
why I'm not happy with any patch which is just trying to band-aid
a situation on architecture X rather than trying to address the
more general situation.
-- PMM