On 22 February 2012 08:29, Evgeny Voevodin <e.voevo...@samsung.com> wrote: > On 22.02.2012 12:12, Peter Maydell wrote: >> Nack. This kind of thing should be done by making QEMU >> load an ELF file which has u-boot in it (which at the >> moment you can do with -kernel). Loading Linux kernels >> is a special case in arm_boot because of the complicated >> boot protocol they have and because people want to load >> lots of different kernels.
> As I understood, you mean that -kernel is for people who want to quickly > compile and try different kernel. > As for me, -uboot is the same ) No need to generate a file, where u-boot and > kernel are placed. Just use -uboot ./u-boot -kernel ./uImage, change kernel, > or change u-boot, or both, as you wish. If you're using -kernel you don't need to provide a u-boot because qemu is being the bootloader. If you're making qemu execute a bootloader than you should just put the kernel where u-boot would load it normally. We really can't add random options to qemu to support loading every single thing you might possibly want to load, which is why I'm drawing a line in the sand here. -- PMM
