On 04/04/2013 06:59:24 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
> For PReP, Fabien has not stated what his use case actually is (in
> particular which hardware?), so it's hard for me to comment on what
the
> hardware actually does and I thus won't accept random changes just
> because they happen to be in Leon3 code. There's nothing
conceptually
> wrong with loading ELF code so I'm positive we will find a solution
to
> accommodate all use cases in some way. :)
I think it makes a lot of sense to support loading -kernel as an ELF
binary. I don't think it's a good idea to allow -kernel without any
BIOS. We do that on the e500 machines and so far it's mostly hurt us.
If by "mostly hurt us" you mean allowed things to work without having
to do a bunch of hacking to create a paravirt U-Boot and/or implement a
bunch of emulation that we don't really need otherwise.
-Scott
