Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 0/8] Add a generic loader

[Alistair Francis]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Peter Maydell
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> On 20 September 2016 at 15:54, 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=0x8000000e,data-len=4
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> Tested with the latest Xilinx ZynqMP machine, if I enable EL3 and EL2 I can
>> boot ATF through to u-boot using the loader to load the images.
>>
>> It can also be used to set registers.
>>
>> This patch series makes the load_elf() function more generic by not
>> requiring an architecture. It also adds new functions load_elf_as(),
>> load_uimage_as and load_image_targphys_as which allows custom
>> AddressSpaces when loading images.
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>
> Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.
>

Woo! Thanks Peter

Alistair

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