Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] elf-loader: Allow late loading of elf

[Thomas Huth]

On 20.02.2017 15:19, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> From: Farhan Ali <address@hidden>
> 
> The current QEMU ROM infrastructure rejects late loading of ROMs.
> And ELFs are currently loaded as ROM, this prevents delayed loading
> of ELFs. So when loading ELF, allow the user to specify if ELF should
> be loaded as ROM or not.
> 
> If an ELF is not loaded as ROM, then they are not restored on a
> guest reboot/reset and so its upto the user to handle the reloading.

Could you maybe also explain here why you need such a delayed ELF
loading? Why can't you load the s390-netboot.img at the same time as
s390-ccw.img?

 Thomas