On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 4 April 2013 17:17, Fabien Chouteau <chout...@adacore.com> wrote: >> On 04/04/2013 02:43 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> The UI is all wrong, though: >>> -kernel should always mean "load a Linux kernel" and we should >>> have some other way (ideally a cross-architecture way) of saying >>> "just load this binary blob and start it". (-bios isn't that >>> because -bios tends to (a) mean different things on different >>> boards and (b) mean 'put this in flash or whatever' rather than >>> 'dump stuff in RAM and go'.) >>> >> >> I think -kernel works fine for all architecture. Linux is not the only >> kernel available ;) > > But -kernel for QEMU specifically means Linux kernel; you might > argue we should have picked a different option name but we're > stuck with it now.
No, it's not Linux-only. At least qemu-system-sparc can load NetBSD kernel with this option. -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko linux/sparc and solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
