From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Cc: Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Konstanty Bialkowski <konstanty@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] target_arm: Make the reset rom_ptr a property
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:40:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA8MN2dgb8Ou_68gvf0bX0bWLzk2qHu-dunS06OBSmnwwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEgOgz4kKD95+eCxV8CPB-KbxcorgDs4edXk4JUUJZG-rQ1ajg@mail.gmail.com>
On 21 August 2014 13:37, Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Peter Maydell
> <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> I think the ELF loading thing is a separate issue -- if we're loading
>> an ELF file we should honour its entry point address instead of
>> trying to load from the vector table. (The question of what we
>> do about SP is an interesting one...)
>>
>
> Well for an elf load you can grab just the SP from VTOR and not the
> PC? You will still need to solve the problem of this patch however.
As you say, it requires that you can at least load from the vector
table, which is problematic if there's nothing there. It's probably
reasonable to require than M profile boards have something in
the memory map where the vector table lives, though.
-- PMM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-21 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-21 1:36 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] target_arm: Make the reset rom_ptr a property Alistair Francis
2014-08-21 1:40 ` Alistair Francis
2014-08-21 3:37 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-08-21 4:13 ` Alistair Francis
2014-08-21 10:55 ` Andreas Färber
2014-08-21 12:33 ` Peter Maydell
2014-08-21 12:37 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-08-21 12:40 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2014-08-21 12:43 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-08-21 13:15 ` Christopher Covington
2014-08-21 13:18 ` Peter Maydell
2014-08-21 8:01 ` Peter Maydell
2014-08-21 8:35 ` Alistair Francis
2014-08-21 9:14 ` Peter Maydell
2014-08-21 12:09 ` Alistair Francis
2014-08-21 12:22 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-08-21 12:26 ` Alistair Francis
2014-08-21 12:24 ` Peter Maydell
2014-08-21 12:35 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2014-08-21 12:37 ` Alistair Francis
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