Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] ARM: Machine specific boot blobs

[Peter Crosthwaite]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 18 October 2015 at 17:25, Peter Crosthwaite
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Ping!
>>
>> Although a little featurish and RFCish, this does repair the boot of
>> two ARM machines so it is very much a bugfix and we should consider
>> for 2.5. Otherwise we go to release (again) with two broken machines.
>
> The general idea looks ok to me, but sending a patchset out labelled
> RFC when we hit softfreeze is a pretty good way to cause people to
> ignore it :-)
>
> Patch 1 looks OK I think; haven't looked too closely at the others.
>
> How are you picking the firmware blob addresses ?
>

It is flexible as far as arm/boot.c is concerned and set as board
specific policy. A board could chose to place it at an arbitrary
address to mimic a real bootrom which might be desirable. For both
Highbank and Zynq I put FW @0 and relocated the QEMU bootloader to a
small non-zero.

Regards,
Peter

> thanks
> -- PMM