2013/7/4 Julio Guerra :
> No conclusion was finally done about the new option proposal to load
> roms files. It really would be handy.
I should rephrase it as: does a patch creating such an option would be welcomed?
--
Julio Guerra
No conclusion was finally done about the new option proposal to load
roms files. It really would be handy.
--
Julio Guerra
On 04/06/2013 04:01:32 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
Am 06.04.2013 um 01:00 schrieb Scott Wood :
> On 04/04/2013 06:59:24 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> > For PReP, Fabien has not stated what his use case actually is (in
>> > particular which hardwar
On 6 April 2013 12:38, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 06.04.2013, at 13:27, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> On 6 April 2013 10:07, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> On ARM, look at highbank. Because we're not running we're lacking
>>> a monitor mode blob that provides sys calls for flushing caches.
>>> Thus toda
On 06.04.2013, at 13:27, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 6 April 2013 10:07, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On ARM, look at highbank. Because we're not running we're lacking
>> a monitor mode blob that provides sys calls for flushing caches.
>> Thus today the highbank machine doesn't boot anymore with Linux
On 6 April 2013 10:07, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On ARM, look at highbank. Because we're not running we're lacking
> a monitor mode blob that provides sys calls for flushing caches.
> Thus today the highbank machine doesn't boot anymore with Linux.
> If we ran firmware like the real board, that woul
Am 06.04.2013 um 01:00 schrieb Scott Wood :
> On 04/04/2013 06:59:24 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> > For PReP, Fabien has not stated what his use case actually is (in
>> > particular which hardware?), so it's hard for me to comment on what the
>>
Am 06.04.2013 um 01:00 schrieb Scott Wood :
> On 04/04/2013 06:59:24 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> > For PReP, Fabien has not stated what his use case actually is (in
>> > particular which hardware?), so it's hard for me to comment on what the
>>
On 04/04/2013 06:59:24 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
> For PReP, Fabien has not stated what his use case actually is (in
> particular which hardware?), so it's hard for me to comment on what
the
> hardware actually does and I thus won't accept rando
On 5 April 2013 10:19, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
> If the -kernel option is for Linux only, we have to rename it to -linux.
> And we remove the ambiguous -kernel option.
This isn't possible, for backwards compatibility reasons. We
have to retain -kernel/-initrd/-append under those names.
> And I ma
On 04/04/2013 07:22 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 04.04.2013 18:26, schrieb Artyom Tarasenko:
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Peter Maydell
>> wrote:
>>> On 4 April 2013 17:17, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
>>>
>>> But -kernel for QEMU specifically means Linux kernel; you might
>>> argue we should
On 04/04/2013 04:57:32 AM, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 04.04.2013, at 11:46, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Fabien Chouteau
wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/03/2013 06:59 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 03.04
On 4 April 2013 23:32, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Am 04.04.2013 um 18:52 schrieb Peter Maydell :
>
>> On 4 April 2013 17:51, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04.04.2013, at 18:41, Peter Maydell wrote
No, in general this isn't what -bios does. Usually -bios means
"take a blob and put it whe
Am 04.04.2013 um 18:52 schrieb Peter Maydell :
> On 4 April 2013 17:51, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>> On 04.04.2013, at 18:41, Peter Maydell wrote
>>> No, in general this isn't what -bios does. Usually -bios means
>>> "take a blob and put it wherever this board expects to have
>>> a ROM or flash
Am 04.04.2013 18:26, schrieb Artyom Tarasenko:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Peter Maydell
> wrote:
>> On 4 April 2013 17:17, Fabien Chouteau 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
On 4/4/13, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 17:46, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Peter Maydell
>> wrote:
>>> My point stands:
>>> * -kernel (if it means anything at all) has to mean "boot in
>>> the way a Linux kernel expects and defines its boot protocol"
>>
Am 04.04.2013 18:17, schrieb Fabien Chouteau:
> On 04/04/2013 02:43 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 4 April 2013 12:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> Alex, isn't ARM running without -bios? Instead of a firmware blob it has
>>> some hardcoded firmware'ish instructions in the loader code.
>>
>> Varies fr
On 4 April 2013 17:51, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 04.04.2013, at 18:41, Peter Maydell wrote
>> No, in general this isn't what -bios does. Usually -bios means
>> "take a blob and put it wherever this board expects to have
>> a ROM or flash firmware image".
> For blobs, I agree. But for ELF, we c
On 4 April 2013 17:46, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Peter Maydell
> wrote:
>> My point stands:
>> * -kernel (if it means anything at all) has to mean "boot in
>> the way a Linux kernel expects and defines its boot protocol"
>
> Yes. That's what happens when loading
On 04.04.2013, at 18:41, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 17:34, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 04.04.2013, at 18:30, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> * -kernel (if it means anything at all) has to mean "boot in
>>> the way a Linux kernel expects and defines its boot protocol"
>>
>> This is what -ke
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 17:26, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Peter Maydell
>> wrote:
>>> But -kernel for QEMU specifically means Linux kernel; you might
>>> argue we should have picked a different option name but we're
On 4 April 2013 17:34, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 04.04.2013, at 18:30, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> * -kernel (if it means anything at all) has to mean "boot in
>> the way a Linux kernel expects and defines its boot protocol"
>
> This is what -kernel does. If more OSs than Linux end up happy with
> th
On 04.04.2013, at 18:30, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 17:26, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Peter Maydell
>> wrote:
>>> But -kernel for QEMU specifically means Linux kernel; you might
>>> argue we should have picked a different option name but we're
>>> st
On 4 April 2013 17:26, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Peter Maydell
> wrote:
>> 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
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 17:17, Fabien Chouteau 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-archite
On 4 April 2013 17:17, Fabien Chouteau 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 star
On 04/04/2013 11:26 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 04.04.2013, at 10:37, Fabien Chouteau 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.
On 04/04/2013 01:16 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 04.04.2013 10:37, schrieb Fabien Chouteau:
>>
>> On 04/03/2013 06:59 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> The preferred way to load a kernel with -kernel is to load firmware
>>> which then detects that a kernel was loaded with -kernel and jumps in.
>>> On
On 04/04/2013 02:43 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 12:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Alex, isn't ARM running without -bios? Instead of a firmware blob it has
>> some hardcoded firmware'ish instructions in the loader code.
>
> Varies from board to board, but yes, generally we have a trivi
On 4 April 2013 12:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Alex, isn't ARM running without -bios? Instead of a firmware blob it has
> some hardcoded firmware'ish instructions in the loader code.
Varies from board to board, but yes, generally we have a trivial
bootloader (which on uniprocessor machines doesn'
On 04.04.2013, at 13:53, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 04.04.2013 11:57, schrieb Artyom Tarasenko:
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04.04.2013, at 11:46, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>>>
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Fabien Chouteau
wrote:
>
Am 04.04.2013 11:57, schrieb Artyom Tarasenko:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>> On 04.04.2013, at 11:46, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Fabien Chouteau
>>> wrote:
On 04/03/2013 06:59 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On
Am 04.04.2013 10:37, schrieb Fabien Chouteau:
>
> On 04/03/2013 06:59 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> The preferred way to load a kernel with -kernel is to load firmware
>> which then detects that a kernel was loaded with -kernel and jumps in.
>> Once Andreas moves PReP to OpenBIOS, this will be the
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 04.04.2013, at 11:46, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Fabien Chouteau
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/03/2013 06:59 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 03.04.2013, at 18:40, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
> I
On 04.04.2013, at 11:46, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Fabien Chouteau 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
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Fabien Chouteau 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
On 04.04.2013, at 10:37, Fabien Chouteau 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 wa
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?
>
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?
The preferred way to load a kernel with -kernel is to loa
If we use an ELF kernel there's no need for bios. '-bios -' means no
bios.
Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau
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