On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Anup Patel <808...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > I am trying to develop a lightweight hypervisor for ARM Cortex-A8. In my > case I have to load hypervisor elf as kernel and there and number of > other binaries like flattened device tree binary for hypervisor > configuration, guest kernel binary, guest ramdisk, etc. > > Currently, I am developing it for Realview PB-A8 board. For loading the > above specified images I have to hack QEMU in hw/arm_boot.c, which is > not a good solution. > > In general, I will encounter similar problem for any other architecture > too. > > What I wish is that can QEMU have an command option to load a binary file to > a physical location after system initialization is done and before QEMU > starts emulating a virtual CPU. > (Note: the command line option will be concerned with physical address and > not virtual address so in case of x86_64 it does not matter if) > > I believe this option can be very handy for OS development and/or > firmware development which require multiple binaries. > > Do you think multiboot is suitable for scenario ??
Doesn't arm_boot.c already load an arbitrary binary when the image is neither a kernel ELF or uboot image? I don't know the arm_boot.c details but skimming the source shows it already does load_image_targphys(). Stefan
