Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] virt: provide secure-only RAM and first flash

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 12/02/16 14:45, Peter Maydell wrote:

> NOTE: to get the -bios option to correctly load to the secure-only
> flash I had to implement a new function in loader.c. load_image_mr()
> is just like load_image_targphys() except that it requests loading
> to a MemoryRegion rather than a physaddr. I think we can also use this
> to clean up the Sparc cg3 and tcx display devices, which currently take
> a qdev property which is "the address I'm going to be mapped at"
> purely so they can use load_image_targphys() to load their ROMs.

Yes! This was something I remember having to explicitly work around when
adding the FCode ROMs to these devices as I couldn't otherwise see how
to load the binary directly into the appropriate MemoryRegion.


ATB,

Mark.