Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] roms: Flush icache when writing roms to guest memory

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On 11.12.2013, at 15:07, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> But these are (emulated) ROMs, not an emulated bootloader.
> They ought to work like actual ROMs: QEMU as the emulator
> of the system/devices provides the contents of physical address
> space; KVM as the emulator of the CPU provides a CPU which
> doesn't start up executing from rubbish in its icache. (This matches
> how a real physical CPU executes its first instruction by really
> going out to the ROM, not by looking at its cache.)

For ppce500 machine, Qemu calls load_uimage2()/load_elf() effectively
loading the image at address 0 instead of handling it as a raw blob.
We do not run yet a bootloader inside the VM.

-Mike