Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 April 2012 22:33, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> Kernel loading is a hack.  I'll go out on a limb and say that most non-x86
> boards are doing it completely wrong.  Messing around with CPU state has no
> business in machine init.  It creates horrible dependencies about RAM
> initialization order and problems for reset/live migration.
>
> The kernel should be presented as a virtual device (an emulated flash or
> whatever) and there should be firmware that loads the kernel appropriately.
> Then we wouldn't need changes like this in the first place.

Yeah, I tend to agree that that would be a cleaner approach, but so far
it hasn't been a requirement. Feel free to submit patches to fix kernel
loading for these boards if you want to be able to rely on this behaviour :-)

-- PMM