Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/2] Add a generic loader

2016-02-18 Thread Peter Maydell
On 18 February 2016 at 19:02, Alistair Francis wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Hollis Blanchard > wrote: >> I understand the part about loading multiple files, but why would I want to >> load a kernel with this loader, instead of the -kernel option? > > If you just want to load a kerne

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/2] Add a generic loader

2016-02-18 Thread Alistair Francis
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > This cover letter has some useful explanation. Perhaps some of the contents > should go into a docs/ file so other people can enjoy it too? :-) Ok, I have created a docs file based on the cover letter > > I understand the part about loa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/2] Add a generic loader

2016-02-18 Thread Hollis Blanchard
This cover letter has some useful explanation. Perhaps some of the contents should go into a docs/ file so other people can enjoy it too? :-) I understand the part about loading multiple files, but why would I want to load a kernel with this loader, instead of the -kernel option? Hollis Blanc

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/2] Add a generic loader

2016-02-17 Thread Alistair Francis
This work is based on the original work by Li Guang with extra features added by Peter C and myself. The idea of this loader is to allow the user to load multiple images or values into QEMU at startup. Memory values can be loaded like this: -device loader,addr=0xfd1a0104,data=0x800e,data-len