Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] Add a generic loader

[Alistair Francis]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Alistair Francis
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 16 Mar 2016 5:04 am, "Peter Maydell" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 3 March 2016 at 19:42, Alistair Francis <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> > This work is based on the original work by Li Guang with extra
>> > features added by Peter C and myself.
>> >
>> > The idea of this loader is to allow the user to load multiple images
>> > or values into QEMU at startup.
>> >
>> > Memory values can be loaded like this: -device
>> > loader,addr=0xfd1a0104,data=0x8000000e,data-len=4
>> >
>> > Images can be loaded like this: -device
>> > loader,file=./images/u-boot.elf,cpu=0
>> >
>> > This can be useful and we use it a lot in Xilinx to load multiple images
>> > into a machine at creation (ATF, Kernel and DTB for example).
>> >
>> > It can also be used to set registers.
>> >
>> > This patch series also make the load_elf() function more generic by not
>> > requiring an architecture.
>>
>> Do you strongly want this in 2.6, or can we punt it to 2.7 ?
>
> It would be really nice to get it in 2.6, but it wouldn't be the end of the
> world if it wasn't.

I'm sending out version 5 now, hopefully this can be in for 2.7.

Thanks,

Alistair

>
> Thanks,
>
> Alistair
>
>>
>> thanks
>> -- PMM
>>