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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] allwinner-a10: add config script support
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 26 December 2013 01:09, Peter Crosthwaite
> <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Can you just provide a generic solution to the "blob some random data
>> into RAM" problem (If one doesn't exist already)?
>>      
> Well, we do already have that (see -machine firmware=whatever), but...
>
>    

Yes, right.

>> I think your binary file here can then just be treated as any other
>> binary boot product and kept outside of QEMU.
>>      
> ...it's much easier to keep the blob outside QEMU because otherwise
> it has to have a git submodule and be built somehow and is generally
> a bit of a faff.
>
> Is this FEX stuff actually supported by the upstream Linux kernel?
> Googling mostly produced a bunch of stuff from a mid-year flamewar.
> I definitely don't think we should add any special support for it in
> QEMU if it's just some random thing that isn't going to be upstreamed.
>
>    

OK, I will use firmware=script.bin option,
thanks!