Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revert "armv7m: Guard against no -kernel argument"

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 13:28, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 12:45:37PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> I was going to add a function to check kernel_filename and the presence
> of -device loader.  Then each machine type init function would call the
> function with flags indicating which modes are allowed:
>
>   /* Allow both -kernel and -device loader */
>   check_kernel_loaded(KERNEL_CMDLINE | KERNEL_LOADER);
>
>   /* Allow only -kernel */
>   check_kernel_loaded(KERNEL_CMDLINE);
>
>   /* Allow only -device loader */
>   check_kernel_loaded(KERNEL_LOADER);

Every machine should permit -device loader: the point
of it is that it is entirely generic and works the same
way on every machine.

thanks
-- PMM