On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 08:05:23AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Alistair Francis <alistair.fran...@xilinx.com> writes: > > > 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 > > I know it's way too late for design questions, but the thought just > occured to me: -device gives you what you need without defining yet > another command line option (good!), but is it appropriate? It's not > exactly a device... Would -object be a better fit? I honestly don't > know. Paolo?
Yes, -object would be better. Basically -device is used to create stuff which is related to guest ABI, while -object is used to create anything else, which is basically host integration stuff. Loading firmeware images is clearly host integration, so belongs in -object Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
