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

[Peter Maydell]

On 27 September 2016 at 06:28, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> What happens when you try to monkey-patch and address that isn't
> connected to anything?
>
> What happens when you try to monkey-patch some device's ROM?
> Memory-mapped I/O?
>
> What happens when you monkey-patch persistent memory, such as pflash
> backed by a block backend?
>
> What happens if the address range crosses device boundaries?

These all come under the heading of "don't do that", the same
way it's a bad idea to tell QEMU to load an elf file via
-kernel which is set up to load to something other than RAM.

thanks
-- PMM