On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 1 June 2012 02:16, Peter A. G. Crosthwaite > <peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com> wrote: >> Added a switch to tell the bootloader that the image is linux and should be >> bootstrapped as such. This is needed to boot an elf that is linux. >> >> Syntax would be: >> >> qemu-system-arm ... -kernel linux.elf -machine linux=on > > This whole area is a mess. Personally I think we should have a > standard way to say "load this ELF file into memory" which isn't > target-dependent, and then we could make -kernel actually load > a kernel rather than its current "load a kernel unless it's an > ELF file in which case do something else". >
Ok, So this sounds like -kernel should behave like is_linux=1. Then you add -elf as the command line option to boot your random non-linux elfs? > There are some back-compatibility issues there, though. Yes there are definitely back compat issues in that people are using -kernel already for their random elfs. But if you want to keep it clean aren't we just going to have to take the hit on the command line syntax change? > > -- PMM
