On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > On 04.04.2013, at 11:46, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Fabien Chouteau <chout...@adacore.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 04/03/2013 06:59 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>> >>>> On 03.04.2013, at 18:40, Fabien Chouteau wrote: >>>> >>>>> If we use an ELF kernel there's no need for bios. '-bios -' means no >>>>> bios. >>>> >>>> This sounds like you're actually looking for a way to load an ELF blob >>>> as bios using -bios, not a kernel, no? >>>> >>> >>> No, we load the kernel with -kernel, that's what the first patch does. >>> But the board is implemented in such way that you can't start without a >>> bios. If the -bios switch is not present, then the board uses the >>> default bios. This patch allows to start without a bios: >>> >>> -kernel <PROGRAM> -bios - >> >> Regardless of the firmware vs. kernel discussion, I think the syntax >> may be improved. Under *nix '-' is commonly used for stdin. Would it >> be possible to specify /dev/null (under *NIX) or NUL (in the >> MS-World)? I think it would make the syntax more explicit. > > I'd be inclined to say that running -kernel without -bios is simply bogus and > shouldn't ever happen.
QEMU does it at least in one other architectures though: leon3_generic. -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko linux/sparc and solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu