On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 02:40 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 29.08.14 00:25, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 00:18 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> I strongly disagree with David. Legally there is no difference between a > >> .bin file that contains code and an array made of instructions. And the > >> more target code we can keep outside of QEMU the better. > > > > Ugh ... having a separate file with it's own build system etc... for 5 > > instructions is borderline ridiculous too :-) > > Then don't use it - nobody's forcing you to do so :). Just use the > provided binary. I fail to see the difference between > > uint32_t rtas_blob[] = { INST_SC1, INST_BLR }; > > and > > uint32_t *rtas_blob; > load_file_from_disk(rtas_blob); > > except that we're using an actual assembler ;).
So you fail to see the difference with an array of 5 words vs. running through thousands of instructions & syscall to read those same 5 words from disk ? :-) Cheers, Ben.