From: Thakur <thakur@symmetricore.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How linux kernel is directly loaded?
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:57:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233505626.6790.1.camel@himanshu-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f43fc5580902010651t2496b587ta5a4f7d41d09a9c6@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 16:51 +0200, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 2/1/09, Thakur <thakur@symmetricore.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was searching for code in qemu which is directly able to load linux
> > kernel with -k option. Which file implements it? Can someone point me to
> > location where this load process is described? My objective is to load
> > the Minix kernel in same fashion.
>
> For PC architecture, it's done in hw/pc.c. There are ELF, a.out and
> binary load functions available, if you need them for Minix.
>
>
I don't have much knowledge of internals of qemu. I know how u-boot
loads the linux kernel, so I was searching for similar pattern. :) How
does qemu know the entry point of the kernel?
Thanks
Regards
- Himanshu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-01 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-01 6:10 [Qemu-devel] How linux kernel is directly loaded? Thakur
2009-02-01 14:51 ` Blue Swirl
2009-02-01 16:27 ` Thakur [this message]
2009-02-01 19:36 ` Anthony Liguori
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