RE: [PATCH 2/2] hw/arm/armv7m: Downgrade CPU reset handler priority

[Stephanos Ioannidis]

Hi Peter and Philip,

Thanks for your insight on this matter.

I am okay as long as this issue is going to be eventually fixed in one way or 
another; the three-phase reset scheme you mentioned does sound like a more 
manageable approach for this purpose; though, I still believe having the option 
to specify the invocation priority for reset handlers would come in handy in 
the future for various purposes.

On 2/27/20 10:31 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> I think Alistair and myself use the 'loader' device with Cortex-M boards and 
> never hit this problem.

I tried both `-kernel [ELF IMAGE]` and `-device loader,file=[ELF IMAGE]` 
without any success; in both cases, without this patch, QEMU hard-faults during 
start-up due to the unavailability of the vector table content at the time of 
CPU reset.

Maybe your firmware image has a load address of 0x0 instead of 0x8000000?

The following is the MAP file for the firmware image I am testing with:
https://gist.github.com/stephanosio/97d1f47f962844479a76e0e909a3b8cf

Regards,

Stephanos