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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] elf-loader: Allow late loading of elf


From: Cornelia Huck
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] elf-loader: Allow late loading of elf
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:13:01 +0100

(restored cc:s)

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:33:36 +0100
Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 20.02.2017 15:19, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > From: Farhan Ali <address@hidden>
> > 
> > The current QEMU ROM infrastructure rejects late loading of ROMs.
> > And ELFs are currently loaded as ROM, this prevents delayed loading
> > of ELFs. So when loading ELF, allow the user to specify if ELF should
> > be loaded as ROM or not.
> > 
> > If an ELF is not loaded as ROM, then they are not restored on a
> > guest reboot/reset and so its upto the user to handle the reloading.
> 
> Could you maybe also explain here why you need such a delayed ELF
> loading? Why can't you load the s390-netboot.img at the same time as
> s390-ccw.img?
> 
>  Thomas
> 
> 

Why should we load the netboot image in all cases, and not just when we
actually need it?




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