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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob
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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>

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