Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.1 2/2] target/riscv: Add support for -bios "firmware_filename" flag

[Jonathan Behrens]

> I've never been fully convinced of this, why not just use the generic
loader?

If I understand you are proposing passing bbl (or other firmware) with the
-kernel flag, and then vmlinux (or another kernel) with the -initrd flag?
Wouldn't this result in losing the ability to pass a real init ramdisk to
Linux? It also seems to open the possibility for strange bugs/compatibility
issues later if firmware starts recognizing any "initrd" entries in the
device tree as kernel code to jump into.

I do wonder though how compatible the current design is with providing
default firmware for riscv in the future.

> This should be in a generic boot.c file and support added to all RISC-V
boards.

I can do this for v2.

Jonathan