Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

[Peter Maydell]

On 1 June 2012 02:16, Peter A. G. Crosthwaite
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Added a switch to tell the bootloader that the image is linux and should be
> bootstrapped as such. This is needed to boot an elf that is linux.
>
> Syntax would be:
>
> qemu-system-arm ... -kernel linux.elf -machine linux=on

This whole area is a mess. Personally I think we should have a
standard way to say "load this ELF file into memory" which isn't
target-dependent, and then we could make -kernel actually load
a kernel rather than its current "load a kernel unless it's an
ELF file in which case do something else".

There are some back-compatibility issues there, though.

-- PMM