On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 1:39 PM Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 14 August 2018 at 17:27, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > This patch series:
> >  * Makes bitbanding optional on ARMv7MState.
> >  * Adds a "cortex-m0" cpu type which can be used with ARMMProfileState.  
> > This
> >    works thanks to Julia's Cortex M0 emulation patches, which are now all
> >    merged.
> >  * Adds Su Hang's Intel HEX file format loader so that micro:bit and other
> >    microcontroller firmware images can be run using -kernel.  The micro:bit
> >    development tools typically only emit .hex files and not ELFs.
>
> Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.
>
> I notice that the change to generic-loader doesn't include an
> update to docs/generic-loader.txt -- could somebody do a followup
> patch for that? Currently the docs say
>
> # The loader device also allows files to be loaded into memory. It can load 
> raw
> # files and ELF executable files.  Raw files are loaded verbatim.  ELF
> executable
> # files are loaded by an ELF loader.
>
> but looking at the code we also support uImage files and HEX files.
> We should mention all of these, and be clear about which ones
> require the <addr> to be specified, and what the PC will be set
> to in the case where <cpu-num> is specified.

Thanks, I will take a look and send a patch.

Stefan

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