Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add -semihosting-config ....cmdline=string.

[Peter Maydell]

On 20 November 2014 15:03, Liviu Ionescu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 20 Nov 2014, at 15:31, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I think you can avoid having to plumb the command line
>> string into the MachineState and arm_boot_info structures,
>> because you can just have the semihosting code look the
>> option up by name:
>>
>>     QemuOpts *opts =
>> qemu_opts_find(qemu_find_opts("semihosting-config"), NULL);
>
> something is missing with the way options are handled, this call fails with 
> BAD_ACCESS.

What's this? It's not an error code in QEMU...

> I tried to debug the problem, but with little success so far.

I'll have a look.

>> That will also automatically make the command line option
>> work for A profile CPUs as well.
>
> where is the A profile code?

A profile CPUs generally boot via the code in hw/arm/boot.c.

-- PMM