From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Peter Crosthwaite" <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>,
patches@linaro.org, "Michael Matz" <matz@suse.de>,
"Alexander Graf" <agraf@suse.de>,
"Dirk Mueller" <dmueller@suse.de>,
"Laurent Desnogues" <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
"Christoffer Dall" <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-arm: Load ELF images with the correct machine type for CPU
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 21:22:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <532DF109.2070401@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395427476-25546-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Am 21.03.2014 19:44, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> When trying to load an ELF file specified via -kernel, we need to
> pass load_elf() the ELF machine type corresponding to the CPU we're
> booting with, not the one corresponding to the softmmu binary
> we happen to be running. (The two are different in the case of
> loading a 32-bit ARM ELF file into a 32 bit CPU being emulated
> by qemu-system aarch64.) This was causing us to incorrectly fail
> to load ELF images in this situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
> ---
> This isn't really a big deal since we can just say "use the
> qemu-system-arm binary instead". However maybe we should put
> this into 2.0. Opinions?
Looks un-intrusive, so +1.
Cheers,
Andreas
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-21 18:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-arm: Load ELF images with the correct machine type for CPU Peter Maydell
2014-03-22 20:22 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2014-03-24 23:52 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-04-10 13:42 ` Alexander Graf
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