Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 808737] Re: No option to load additional binary files from command line in QEMU

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 July 2011 16:23, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Doesn't arm_boot.c already load an arbitrary binary when the image is
> neither a kernel ELF or uboot image?  I don't know the arm_boot.c
> details but skimming the source shows it already does
> load_image_targphys().

The assumption is that an ELF image is a random raw binary,
and a non-ELF image is an actual kernel. I hate this and
would much rather we had a more generic way of saying "look,
just load this ELF file into physical memory please" (and
that -kernel always treated its argument as an actual kernel,
but that would break backwards compatibility :-()

-- PMM