Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] arm_boot: Assume Linux boot flow when -dtb given

[Peter Crosthwaite]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Peter Maydell
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 22 June 2012 14:27, Peter Crosthwaite
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Ping!
>>
>> Any thoughts Peter?
>
> Still sounds too specific to your odd use case and hardware to me.
>
> I'd accept some reasonable way of saying "this ELF file is a Linux kernel",
> but magically doing it if you also said -dtb isn't it.

Then is there no objection to v1 of this series where I made a
is_linux machine opt? I made this patch as a less intrusive workaround
to this problem...

I also care about
> backcompat with previous command lines and with being consistent about
> how -kernel works across architectures where possible. (I know this is
> a somewhat contradictory set of requirements.)
>
> -- PMM