Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] extensions to the -m memory option

[Peter Maydell]

On 1 June 2015 at 10:16, Peter Crosthwaite <address@hidden> wrote:
> You still want to be able to use elf using a proper elf load process
> even if the target memory is a persistent flash. These micros tend to
> have small memory-mapped executable flashes so from a debug and
> programming model that really look and feel like RAM and should be
> usable by -kernel.
>
> If all we are worried about the name of -kernel can we give it an alias?

Better still, an option that was consistently "load this ELF file"
regardless of target architecture would be nice. -kernel's semantics
vary wildly between archs and it doesn't do ELF loading on all of
them.

-- PMM