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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] hw/arm/virt: boot with -kernel -initrd
 -append on top of UEFI
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>, Drew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>, qemu devel list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>

On 12/05/14 19:55, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 5 December 2014 at 18:36, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
>> A number of tools depend on passing the kernel image, the initial
>> ramdisk, and the kernel command line to the guest on the QEMU command
>> line (options -kernel, -initrd, -append, respectively). At the moment,
>> these QEMU options work, but the guest kernel loaded this way is
>> launched by a minimal binary firmware that is dynamically composed by
>> QEMU. As a consequence, such a kernel has no UEFI environment.
>>
>> In this patchset the kernel, initrd and cmdline blobs are passed to the
>> guest firmware to process & load. This mode is activated when both
>> -kernel and -pflash unit#0 (or -bios) are specified.
> 
> ...so we avoid back-compat problems on the assumption that
> nobody was previously trying to provide both -bios and
> -kernel at once. I *think* that's probably a reasonable
> assumption...

I'm including these three too in the new patchset that I'll post soon,
so no need to keep these queued.

Thanks
Laszlo