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

[Peter Crosthwaite]

Ping!

Whats the action item here? Put out an RFC about unifying bootloaders
or some such?

Regards,
Peter

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Peter Crosthwaite
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Well if X and Y behave differently and you want to unify them, then
> either X or Y loses backwards compatibility. Someone is going to have
> their command line change on them.
>
> Looking at some of the other bootloaders, I dont see others that
> "assume elfs are not linux", so it seems to me that ARM is the
> exception, not the rule. So from that unification would involve
> getting rid of this ARM assumption that elfs are different. Just boot
> the elf with the linux style bootloader like most other platforms.
>
>> -- PMM