system emulation booting elf files [was: Re: [Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware question]

[Karel Gardas]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Brian Wheeler wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:52 +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> >
> > > All of the websites that are referred to in the docs and source are
> > > missing.  Is there another place to get it?  I'm tinkering with the idea
> > > to try to boot aix on qemu.
> >
> > The same here! But for RTEMS and Mesquite cPCI (MCP750) BSP.
> >
> > Any idea how to get such code booting? IMHO the best would be to use
> > Qemu's -kernel option, but I don't know what are precise requirement for
> > it and for image booting in this scenario.

I've thought about it a little bit, but since I'm not system programmer, 
I'm a bit lost. RTEMS executables (whole system image) are ordinary elf 
files:

silence:~/cvs/rtems/examples/hello_world_c/o-optimize$ file hello.exe
hello.exe: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically 
linked, stripped
silence:~/cvs/rtems/examples/hello_world_c/o-optimize$

(i.e. hello.exe is whole RTEMS kernel and user app built together)

for example GRUB is able to boot such file and when booting it prints 
something like:
[Multiboot-elf, <0x100000; 0x4e538:0xbe28  (and probably something other
                                            which I've not caught since
                                            RTEMS booted quickly)

So what's IMHO needed is just elf load such file and start it. Perhaps 
here is possible to use em86/qemu's elfload functionality and instead of 
linux-user more hook this into the system mode.

Any idea how to proceed? (or where exactly to start?)

Thanks!
Karel
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