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

[Peter Maydell]

On 25 June 2012 09:55, Peter Crosthwaite
<address@hidden> wrote:
> As for architectures, I can speak for Microblaze and the PPC
> bootloader for virtex_ml507. The DTB will blob in regardless of
> whether its an elf or not, so no is_linux switch is needed there for
> my Linux elfs. There is no functional difference between linux and not
> linux in those bootloaders.

Yes, it is exactly the "on architecture X we behave like this and
on architecture Y we do something else" that I dislike, and this is
why I'm not happy with any patch which is just trying to band-aid
a situation on architecture X rather than trying to address the
more general situation.

-- PMM