From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>,
peter.maydell@linaro.org, crosthwaitepeter@gmail.com,
pbonzini@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, cov@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 0/8] Add a generic loader
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:54:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160921155448.GY15535@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fa5aiu4.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 08:05:23AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com> writes:
>
> > This work is based on the original work by Li Guang with extra
> > features added by Peter C and myself.
> >
> > The idea of this loader is to allow the user to load multiple images
> > or values into QEMU at startup.
> >
> > Memory values can be loaded like this: -device loader,addr=0xfd1a0104,data=0x8000000e,data-len=4
> >
> > Images can be loaded like this: -device loader,file=./images/u-boot.elf,cpu=0
>
> I know it's way too late for design questions, but the thought just
> occured to me: -device gives you what you need without defining yet
> another command line option (good!), but is it appropriate? It's not
> exactly a device... Would -object be a better fit? I honestly don't
> know. Paolo?
Yes, -object would be better. Basically -device is used to create stuff
which is related to guest ABI, while -object is used to create anything
else, which is basically host integration stuff.
Loading firmeware images is clearly host integration, so belongs in
-object
Regards,
Daniel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-21 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-20 14:54 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 0/8] Add a generic loader Alistair Francis
2016-09-20 14:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 1/8] loader: Allow ELF loader to auto-detect the ELF arch Alistair Francis
2016-09-20 14:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 2/8] loader: Use the specified MemoryRegion Alistair Francis
2016-09-20 14:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 3/8] loader: Allow a custom AddressSpace when loading ROMs Alistair Francis
2016-09-20 14:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 4/8] loader: Add AddressSpace loading support to ELFs Alistair Francis
2016-09-20 14:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 5/8] loader: Add AddressSpace loading support to uImages Alistair Francis
2016-09-20 14:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 6/8] loader: Add AddressSpace loading support to targphys Alistair Francis
2016-09-20 14:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 7/8] generic-loader: Add a generic loader Alistair Francis
2016-09-20 14:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 8/8] docs: Add a generic loader explanation document Alistair Francis
2016-09-20 17:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 0/8] Add a generic loader Peter Maydell
2016-09-20 18:22 ` Alistair Francis
2016-09-21 6:05 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-09-21 15:46 ` Alistair Francis
2016-09-21 15:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-22 9:19 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-09-22 9:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-22 11:50 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-09-22 14:01 ` Peter Maydell
2016-09-23 8:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-09-23 8:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-27 13:28 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-09-27 14:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-27 15:40 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-09-27 16:24 ` Alistair Francis
2016-09-28 2:04 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-09-28 22:48 ` Alistair Francis
2016-09-27 15:17 ` Peter Maydell
2016-09-21 15:54 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
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