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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How linux kernel is directly loaded?
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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