Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Add "-uboot" option

[Evgeny Voevodin <e.voevodin@samsung.com>]

On 22.02.2012 12:12, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 22 February 2012 06:58, Evgeny Voevodin<e.voevodin@samsung.com>  wrote:
>> These patches add "-uboot" option to ARM boards.
>> To let user load u-boot, board should initialize
>> .uboot_start in arm_boot_info struct.
>> Added utilisation of "-uboot" for exynos4 and integratorcp.
> Nack. This kind of thing should be done by making QEMU
> load an ELF file which has u-boot in it (which at the
> moment you can do with -kernel). Loading Linux kernels
> is a special case in arm_boot because of the complicated
> boot protocol they have and because people want to load
> lots of different kernels.
>
> -- PMM
>

As I understood, you mean that -kernel is for people who want to quickly 
compile and try different kernel.
As for me, -uboot is the same ) No need to generate a file, where u-boot 
and kernel are placed. Just use -uboot ./u-boot -kernel ./uImage, change 
kernel, or change u-boot, or both, as you wish.

-- 
Kind regards,
Evgeny Voevodin,
Leading Software Engineer,
ASWG, Moscow R&D center, Samsung Electronics
e-mail: e.voevodin@samsung.com