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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:40:14 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] target_arm: Make the reset rom_ptr
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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>

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