On 11 July 2011 16:23, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doesn't arm_boot.c already load an arbitrary binary when the image is > neither a kernel ELF or uboot image? I don't know the arm_boot.c > details but skimming the source shows it already does > load_image_targphys().
The assumption is that an ELF image is a random raw binary, and a non-ELF image is an actual kernel. I hate this and would much rather we had a more generic way of saying "look, just load this ELF file into physical memory please" (and that -kernel always treated its argument as an actual kernel, but that would break backwards compatibility :-() -- PMM -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/808737 Title: No option to load additional binary files from command line in QEMU Status in QEMU: New Bug description: There is no command line option like -kerner, or -initrd to load an arbitrary binary file to a RAM location when launching QEMU. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/808737/+subscriptions