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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] add --image command line for use with non-linux m
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] add --image command line for use with non-linux machines |
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Sat, 20 Jun 2015 22:53:58 +0100 |
On 20 June 2015 at 22:00, Liviu Ionescu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Due to the problems that I recently faced with the semihosting patches, that
> impair functionality for maintaining compatibility with existing linux
> machines, I added the following to my GNU ARM Eclipse branch:
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> DEFHEADING(Microcontroller/Cortex-M specific:)
I do think we should improve our handling of image file
loading. I also strongly think that adding yet another
thing that's special cased to one target architecture,
board or CPU subtype is a really bad idea. If we want
ELF image loading we need to support it on *all* boards
and *all* CPU architectures. Anything else is just making
our confusing set of image loading arguments worse.
> I think that it is reasonably to acknowledge that not all emulated
> machines are linux boxes, and that it is not ok to bend everything
> to match the linux command line options.
This I agree with.
-- PMM