Re: Testing a microcontroller emulation by loading the binary on incomplete Flash emulation

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 8/23/21 9:46 PM, Gautam Bhat wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 10:18 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> 
> wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 15:37, Gautam Bhat <mindentropy@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am to implement a very simple microcontroller for my understanding
>>> of Qemu development. This microcontroller runs its code from
>>> programmable flash which is bit-, byte- and word addressable. To do
>>> some initial tests of my nascent microcontroller implementation I

Aren't Nascent uC based on 8051? Because AFAIK QEMU doesn't emulate
this architecture.

>>> would like to load a very simple program binary. Is there a way to
>>> load this binary and start execution without emulating Flash
>>> controller and memory?
>>
>> Just create a plain old RAM memory region, and then load the
>> guest binary into it with the 'generic loader' (which can
>> take an ELF file or a raw binary).
>>
>> -- PMM
> 
> Thanks. I will check it out.
>