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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs/generic-loader: mention U-Boot and Intel H
From: |
Alistair Francis |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs/generic-loader: mention U-Boot and Intel HEX executable formats |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:54:11 -0700 |
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:55 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> The generic loader device supports the U-Boot and Intel HEX executable
> formats in addition to the document raw and ELF formats. Reword the
> documentation to include these formats and explain how various options
> depend on the executable format.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <address@hidden>
Alistair
> ---
> Based-on: <address@hidden>
> (https://git.linaro.org/people/pmaydell/qemu-arm.git/
> pull-target-arm-20180816)
>
> docs/generic-loader.txt | 20 ++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/generic-loader.txt b/docs/generic-loader.txt
> index 31bbcd42f6..a9603a2af7 100644
> --- a/docs/generic-loader.txt
> +++ b/docs/generic-loader.txt
> @@ -56,25 +56,25 @@ An example of setting CPU 0's PC to 0x8000 is:
>
> Loading Files
> -------------
> -The loader device also allows files to be loaded into memory. It can load raw
> -files and ELF executable files. Raw files are loaded verbatim. ELF
> executable
> -files are loaded by an ELF loader. The syntax is shown below:
> +The loader device also allows files to be loaded into memory. It can load
> ELF,
> +U-Boot, and Intel HEX executable formats as well as raw images. The syntax
> is
> +shown below:
>
> -device
> loader,file=<file>[,addr=<addr>][,cpu-num=<cpu-num>][,force-raw=<raw>]
>
> <file> - A file to be loaded into memory
> - <addr> - The addr in memory that the file should be loaded. This is
> - ignored if you are using an ELF (unless force-raw is true).
> - This is required if you aren't loading an ELF.
> + <addr> - The memory address where the file should be loaded. This is
> + required for raw images and ignored for non-raw files.
> <cpu-num> - This specifies the CPU that should be used. This is an
> optional argument and will cause the CPU's PC to be set to
> - where the image is stored or in the case of an ELF file to
> - the value in the header. This option should only be used
> - for the boot image.
> + the memory address where the raw file is loaded or the
> entry
> + point specified in the executable format header. This
> option
> + should only be used for the boot image.
> This will also cause the image to be written to the
> specified
> CPU's address space. If not specified, the default is CPU
> 0.
> <force-raw> - Setting force-raw=on forces the file to be treated as a raw
> - image. This can be used to load ELF files as if they were
> raw.
> + image. This can be used to load supported executable
> formats
> + as if they were raw.
>
> All values are parsed using the standard QemuOps parsing. This allows the
> user
> to specify any values in any format supported. By default the values
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>