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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader |
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Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:41:21 +0000 |
On 2 January 2014 05:50, Peter Crosthwaite <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm wondering whether blob loading is actually a reset step not an
> init.
load_image_targphys() uses the rom blob loader code from hw/core/loader.c,
which already supports reloading the blob on machine reset if necessary.
That raises some more general design questions:
* how is this expected to interact with rom blob loading, -machine firmware=,
etc? What are the guidelines for when to use one or the other? Should
this be rolled into the rom blob code rather than being a bolt-on extra?
* I'm unconvinced by the general approach of having a device with an
address property
* would it be useful if the rom blob loading was extended/reworked so that
you could load a rom blob into a MemoryRegion? We want that for
the SPARC TCX ROM blobs as well; maybe it would help here too,
though I haven't thought much about it.
thanks
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Li Guang, 2014/01/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Li Guang, 2014/01/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Peter Crosthwaite, 2014/01/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Li Guang, 2014/01/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Peter Crosthwaite, 2014/01/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Li Guang, 2014/01/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Li Guang, 2014/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Peter Crosthwaite, 2014/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Li Guang, 2014/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/01/06
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Peter Crosthwaite, 2014/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Peter Maydell, 2014/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Peter Crosthwaite, 2014/01/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/misc/blob-loader: add a generic blob loader, Li Guang, 2014/01/08