Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs/generic-loader: mention U-Boot and Intel HEX executable formats

[Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:55 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote:
> The generic loader device supports the U-Boot and Intel HEX executable
> formats in addition to the document raw and ELF formats.  Reword the
> documentation to include these formats and explain how various options
> depend on the executable format.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>

Alistair

> ---
> Based-on: <20180816133438.17061-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> (https://git.linaro.org/people/pmaydell/qemu-arm.git/ pull-target-arm-20180816)
>
>  docs/generic-loader.txt | 20 ++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/generic-loader.txt b/docs/generic-loader.txt
> index 31bbcd42f6..a9603a2af7 100644
> --- a/docs/generic-loader.txt
> +++ b/docs/generic-loader.txt
> @@ -56,25 +56,25 @@ An example of setting CPU 0's PC to 0x8000 is:
>
>  Loading Files
>  -------------
> -The loader device also allows files to be loaded into memory. It can load raw
> -files and ELF executable files.  Raw files are loaded verbatim.  ELF executable
> -files are loaded by an ELF loader.  The syntax is shown below:
> +The loader device also allows files to be loaded into memory. It can load ELF,
> +U-Boot, and Intel HEX executable formats as well as raw images.  The syntax is
> +shown below:
>
>      -device loader,file=<file>[,addr=<addr>][,cpu-num=<cpu-num>][,force-raw=<raw>]
>
>      <file>      - A file to be loaded into memory
> -    <addr>      - The addr in memory that the file should be loaded. This is
> -                  ignored if you are using an ELF (unless force-raw is true).
> -                  This is required if you aren't loading an ELF.
> +    <addr>      - The memory address where the file should be loaded. This is
> +                  required for raw images and ignored for non-raw files.
>      <cpu-num>   - This specifies the CPU that should be used. This is an
>                    optional argument and will cause the CPU's PC to be set to
> -                  where the image is stored or in the case of an ELF file to
> -                  the value in the header. This option should only be used
> -                  for the boot image.
> +                  the memory address where the raw file is loaded or the entry
> +                  point specified in the executable format header. This option
> +                  should only be used for the boot image.
>                    This will also cause the image to be written to the specified
>                    CPU's address space. If not specified, the default is CPU 0.
>      <force-raw> - Setting force-raw=on forces the file to be treated as a raw
> -                  image.  This can be used to load ELF files as if they were raw.
> +                  image.  This can be used to load supported executable formats
> +                  as if they were raw.
>
>  All values are parsed using the standard QemuOps parsing. This allows the user
>  to specify any values in any format supported. By default the values
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>