On 2 July 2016 at 02:07, Alistair Francis <alistair.fran...@xilinx.com> wrote: > This work is based on the original work by Li Guang with extra > features added by Peter C and myself. > > The idea of this loader is to allow the user to load multiple images > or values into QEMU at startup. > > Memory values can be loaded like this: -device > loader,addr=0xfd1a0104,data=0x8000000e,data-len=4 > > Images can be loaded like this: -device loader,file=./images/u-boot.elf,cpu=0 > > This can be useful and we use it a lot in Xilinx to load multiple images > into a machine at creation (ATF, Kernel and DTB for example). > > It can also be used to set registers. > > This patch series makes the load_elf() function more generic by not > requiring an architecture. It also adds a new function load_elf_as() > which allows custom AddressSpaces when loading ELF images. > > At the moment I think the AddressSpace loading support is more of an > RFC. If people agree with the way I'm doing it I will expand the support > to image types.
"an RFC" at this stage of the release process is a strong hint towards "not for this release". Are you sure about that? thanks -- PMM
