Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] multiboot: load any machine type of ELF

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 16.10.2017 um 20:38 hat Anatol Pomozov geschrieben:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Am 14.10.2017 um 15:41 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
> >> On 14 October 2017 at 00:21, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > I don't believe the spec restricts that, but I don't see why it
> >> > would be useful to load an ELF file that doesn't match the target
> >> > architecture (e.g. loading non-x86 ELF files on a x86 machine
> >> > like PC).
> 
> I see what do you mean Eduardo. Yes it makes sense to restrict ELF to
> the currently emulated platform.
> 
> On a second thought adding multiboot support for non x86 needs to go
> with other changes, e.g. multiboot.c should be moved out of hw/i386 to
> some platform-independent location. It probably worth to postpone this
> change until after Qemu gets multiboot2 support that explicitly states
> MIPS support, thus it will be easier to test this codepath on multiple
> platforms.
> 
> So if you don't mind I'll remove this patch from the current patch
> series and put it into later one.

I can't find a new version of this patch series with this patch dropped.
Are you still planning to send one?

Kevin