On 16 January 2017 at 19:25, Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:53:07AM -0800, Alistair Francis wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > But I think the users also expect the "-kernel" parameter to be working, >> > so I think we should add the loader code in null-machine.c anyway. >> >> I agree that uses probably expect the '-kernel' option to work as well. > > So, is it possible to write a generic load_kernel() function that > simply reuses the generic-loader code?
No, because users expect -kernel to actually load a Linux kernel (meaning with the calling conventions etc the kernel requires), whereas generic-loader is just "load a binary blob and start there". (-kernel is arch-specific and messy and doesn't behave the same way on all targets either :-() thanks -- PMM
