On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 at 08:35, Stefan Lankes <slan...@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > > Currently, the flag `--initrd` is only support for Linux ARM kernels. > However, also other ELF kernels could depend on an initial ramdisk. > This PR loads also the initrd for ELF kernels and announce the > location by the nodes "/chosen/initrd-start" and > "/chosen/initrd-end" within the device tree.
What are these "other ELF kernels" ? Is there some defined specification of bootloader you're trying to implement here? Currently QEMU for Arm supports two things: (1) I am a Linux kernel, load me like the Linux kernel defines (2) I'm just a bare-metal image (ELF file or raw) Adding support for some third type of loading would need a pretty solid justification, eg that this is a very common kind of image to load, that there is a well defined specification, that it's supported by lots of other bootloaders, etc. The bootloading code is too complicated already and I am very reluctant to add more to it. thanks -- PMM
