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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-arm: Load ELF images with the correct ma


From: Andreas Färber
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-arm: Load ELF images with the correct machine type for CPU
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 21:22:33 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0

Am 21.03.2014 19:44, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> When trying to load an ELF file specified via -kernel, we need to
> pass load_elf() the ELF machine type corresponding to the CPU we're
> booting with, not the one corresponding to the softmmu binary
> we happen to be running. (The two are different in the case of
> loading a 32-bit ARM ELF file into a 32 bit CPU being emulated
> by qemu-system aarch64.) This was causing us to incorrectly fail
> to load ELF images in this situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>

> ---
> This isn't really a big deal since we can just say "use the
> qemu-system-arm binary instead". However maybe we should put
> this into 2.0. Opinions?

Looks un-intrusive, so +1.

Cheers,
Andreas

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