Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] Add a generic loader

[Alistair Francis]

On 16 Mar 2016 5:04 am, "Peter Maydell" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 3 March 2016 at 19:42, Alistair Francis <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This work is based on the original work by Li Guang with extra
> > features added by Peter C and myself.
> >
> > The idea of this loader is to allow the user to load multiple images
> > or values into QEMU at startup.
> >
> > Memory values can be loaded like this: -device loader,addr=0xfd1a0104,data=""> > >
> > Images can be loaded like this: -device loader,file=./images/u-boot.elf,cpu=0
> >
> > This can be useful and we use it a lot in Xilinx to load multiple images
> > into a machine at creation (ATF, Kernel and DTB for example).
> >
> > It can also be used to set registers.
> >
> > This patch series also make the load_elf() function more generic by not
> > requiring an architecture.
>
> Do you strongly want this in 2.6, or can we punt it to 2.7 ?

It would be really nice to get it in 2.6, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if it wasn't.

Thanks,

Alistair

>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>