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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add MIPS ELF loader
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I just added an ELF loader (inspirated from the SPARC one) which should 
work for all architectures. It supports symbol loading and use the CPU 
physical memory mappings to compute correct RAM addresses.

Fabrice.

Dirk Behme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ELF loader feature for MIPS in patch
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-03/msg00033.html
> 
> was rejected because it breaks loading of raw kernel images:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-03/msg00082.html
> 
> What about the patch in attachment? It first tries to load
> image as an ELF file. If this fails it falls back to raw
> image load. Additionally, it takes feature of patch above to
> go on even if no BIOS is found.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dirk