On 17 April 2012 22:33, Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Kernel loading is a hack. I'll go out on a limb and say that most non-x86 > boards are doing it completely wrong. Messing around with CPU state has no > business in machine init. It creates horrible dependencies about RAM > initialization order and problems for reset/live migration. > > The kernel should be presented as a virtual device (an emulated flash or > whatever) and there should be firmware that loads the kernel appropriately. > Then we wouldn't need changes like this in the first place.
Yeah, I tend to agree that that would be a cleaner approach, but so far it hasn't been a requirement. Feel free to submit patches to fix kernel loading for these boards if you want to be able to rely on this behaviour :-) -- PMM
