Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-06-27 Thread Peter Maydell
On 27 June 2012 05:38, Peter Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com wrote: Ping! Whats the action item here? Put out an RFC about unifying bootloaders or some such? Something like that -- identify what all the architectures currently do with these command line arguments and propose

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-06-26 Thread Peter Crosthwaite
Ping! Whats the action item here? Put out an RFC about unifying bootloaders or some such? Regards, Peter On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Peter Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Peter Maydell peter.mayd...@linaro.org wrote: On 25 June 2012

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-06-25 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 25.06.2012 03:51, schrieb Peter Crosthwaite: Ping! @PMM You rejected my workaround in V2 (i.e. using -dtb to force is_linux) on the grounds that youd accept some reasonable way of saying this ELF file is a Linux kernel, That brings us back to V1 - this patch. Any objections? I won't

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Crosthwaite
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Andreas Färber afaer...@suse.de wrote: Am 25.06.2012 03:51, schrieb Peter Crosthwaite: Ping! @PMM You rejected my workaround in V2 (i.e. using -dtb to force is_linux) on the grounds that youd accept some reasonable way of saying this ELF file is a Linux

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Maydell
On 25 June 2012 02:51, Peter Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com wrote: You rejected my workaround in V2 (i.e. using -dtb to force is_linux) on the grounds that youd accept some reasonable way of saying this ELF file is a Linux kernel, That brings us back to V1 - this patch. Any

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Crosthwaite
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Peter Maydell peter.mayd...@linaro.org wrote: On 25 June 2012 02:51, Peter Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com wrote: You rejected my workaround in V2 (i.e. using -dtb to force is_linux) on the grounds that youd accept some reasonable way of saying this

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Maydell
On 25 June 2012 09:55, Peter Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com wrote: As for architectures, I can speak for Microblaze and the PPC bootloader for virtex_ml507. The DTB will blob in regardless of whether its an elf or not, so no is_linux switch is needed there for my Linux elfs. There

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Crosthwaite
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Peter Maydell peter.mayd...@linaro.org wrote: On 25 June 2012 09:55, Peter Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com wrote: As for architectures, I can speak for Microblaze and the PPC bootloader for virtex_ml507. The DTB will blob in regardless of whether

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-06-24 Thread Peter Crosthwaite
Ping! @PMM You rejected my workaround in V2 (i.e. using -dtb to force is_linux) on the grounds that youd accept some reasonable way of saying this ELF file is a Linux kernel, That brings us back to V1 - this patch. Any objections? Regards, Peter On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Peter Maydell

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-06-01 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 01.06.2012 03:16, schrieb Peter A. G. Crosthwaite: Added a switch to tell the bootloader that the image is linux and should be bootstrapped as such. This is needed to boot an elf that is linux. Syntax would be: qemu-system-arm ... -kernel linux.elf -machine linux=on Signed-off-by:

[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-05-31 Thread Peter A. G. Crosthwaite
Added a switch to tell the bootloader that the image is linux and should be bootstrapped as such. This is needed to boot an elf that is linux. Syntax would be: qemu-system-arm ... -kernel linux.elf -machine linux=on Signed-off-by: Peter A. G. Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com ---

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-05-31 Thread Peter Maydell
On 1 June 2012 02:16, Peter A. G. Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com wrote: Added a switch to tell the bootloader that the image is linux and should be bootstrapped as such. This is needed to boot an elf that is linux. Syntax would be: qemu-system-arm ... -kernel linux.elf -machine

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 1/2] arm_boot: added linux switch

2012-05-31 Thread Peter Crosthwaite
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Peter Maydell peter.mayd...@linaro.org wrote: On 1 June 2012 02:16, Peter A. G. Crosthwaite peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com wrote: Added a switch to tell the bootloader that the image is linux and should be bootstrapped as such. This is needed to boot an elf