On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > 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?
I mostly meant it because at the moment it only supports one image type. I will need to expand it to the other images. I wanted to see if this was considered the right approach before I did that. Thanks, Alistair > > thanks > -- PMM >
