Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] target_arm: Make the reset rom_ptr a property

[Peter Crosthwaite]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Peter Maydell
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 21 August 2014 13:37, Peter Crosthwaite <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Peter Maydell
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I think the ELF loading thing is a separate issue -- if we're loading
>>> an ELF file we should honour its entry point address instead of
>>> trying to load from the vector table. (The question of what we
>>> do about SP is an interesting one...)
>>>
>>
>> Well for an elf load you can grab just the SP from VTOR and not the
>> PC? You will still need to solve the problem of this patch however.
>
> As you say, it requires that you can at least load from the vector
> table, which is problematic if there's nothing there. It's probably
> reasonable to require than M profile boards have something in
> the memory map where the vector table lives, though.
>

Yes. I think for Netduino, that will be an alias of another already
existing memory region.

Regards,
Peter

> -- PMM
>