Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image

[Alexander Graf]

Am 04.04.2013 um 18:52 schrieb Peter Maydell <address@hidden>:

> On 4 April 2013 17:51, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On 04.04.2013, at 18:41, Peter Maydell wrote
>>> No, in general this isn't what -bios does. Usually -bios means
>>> "take a blob and put it wherever this board expects to have
>>> a ROM or flash firmware image".
> 
>> For blobs, I agree. But for ELF, we could just use the ELF
>> information to load it somewhere else. It would certainly
>> be a much more natural fit than -kernel.
> 
> OK, and then how do you say "load the usual firmware but I have
> a binary blob I want to run" ?

That's -kernel today. Loading firmware means executing firmware.


Alex

> 
> -- PMM