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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image
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Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Apr 2013 17:20:42 +0100 |
On 4 April 2013 17:17, Fabien Chouteau <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/04/2013 02:43 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> The UI is all wrong, though:
>> -kernel should always mean "load a Linux kernel" and we should
>> have some other way (ideally a cross-architecture way) of saying
>> "just load this binary blob and start it". (-bios isn't that
>> because -bios tends to (a) mean different things on different
>> boards and (b) mean 'put this in flash or whatever' rather than
>> 'dump stuff in RAM and go'.)
>>
>
> I think -kernel works fine for all architecture. Linux is not the only
> kernel available ;)
But -kernel for QEMU specifically means Linux kernel; you might
argue we should have picked a different option name but we're
stuck with it now. The problem on ARM is that we treat
'-kernel but this is an ELF file' and '-kernel and this is a
binary blob' differently.
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Artyom Tarasenko, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Artyom Tarasenko, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Andreas Färber, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Peter Maydell, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Fabien Chouteau, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Artyom Tarasenko, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Peter Maydell, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Peter Maydell, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Peter Maydell, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Alexander Graf, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Peter Maydell, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Artyom Tarasenko, 2013/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image, Peter Maydell, 2013/04/04