[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] hw/arm/boot: Make user not specifying a kernel not an error

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

Typically ARM boards will have some kind of flash which might contain
a boot ROM; it's therefore a valid use case to provide only an
image for the boot ROM and not require QEMU's internal boot loader
at all. Remove the fatal error if -kernel isn't specified.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
---
 hw/arm/boot.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/arm/boot.c b/hw/arm/boot.c
index 1e313af..583ec79 100644
--- a/hw/arm/boot.c
+++ b/hw/arm/boot.c
@@ -354,8 +354,10 @@ void arm_load_kernel(ARMCPU *cpu, struct arm_boot_info *info)
 
     /* Load the kernel.  */
     if (!info->kernel_filename) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "Kernel image must be specified\n");
-        exit(1);
+        /* If no kernel specified, do nothing; we will start from address 0
+         * (typically a boot ROM image) in the same way as hardware.
+         */
+        return;
     }
 
     info->dtb_filename = qemu_opt_get(qemu_get_machine_opts(), "dtb");
-- 
1.7.11.4