From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Cc: Edgar Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Li Guang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 13:13:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52CA9DD0.7010401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEgOgz5fyh2vrEnJJtEzNBnYLWLRyLn9k1qcGW2v1MSrCkfOOA@mail.gmail.com>
Il 06/01/2014 08:56, Peter Crosthwaite ha scritto:
> > What are the guidelines for when to use one or the other?
>
> "-machine firmware=" if you want to load a firmware blob in a board
> specific way. This if you want to place a blob in memory at an
> arbitrary location on reset.
"-machine firmware=" is also a pretty bad design because it's not
extensible and doesn't apply to most boards. We really should get
per-board -machine options, so that you can have a less generic name
than "firmware".
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-06 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-02 5:35 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader Li Guang
2014-01-02 5:50 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-01-02 6:51 ` Li Guang
2014-01-02 8:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-02 10:51 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-01-02 12:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-06 0:52 ` Li Guang
2014-01-06 3:55 ` Li Guang
2014-01-06 4:00 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-01-06 4:22 ` Li Guang
2014-01-06 4:32 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-01-06 4:52 ` Li Guang
2014-01-06 5:24 ` Li Guang
2014-01-06 5:28 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-01-06 5:36 ` Li Guang
2014-01-06 12:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-06 7:41 ` Peter Maydell
2014-01-06 7:56 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-01-06 8:16 ` Peter Maydell
2014-01-06 12:13 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-01-06 13:06 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-01-08 7:38 ` Li Guang
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