Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 April 2013 17:17, Fabien Chouteau <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/04/2013 02:43 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> The UI is all wrong, though:
>> -kernel should always mean "load a Linux kernel" and we should
>> have some other way (ideally a cross-architecture way) of saying
>> "just load this binary blob and start it". (-bios isn't that
>> because -bios tends to (a) mean different things on different
>> boards and (b) mean 'put this in flash or whatever' rather than
>> 'dump stuff in RAM and go'.)
>>
>
> I think -kernel works fine for all architecture. Linux is not the only
> kernel available ;)

But -kernel for QEMU specifically means Linux kernel; you might
argue we should have picked a different option name but we're
stuck with it now. The problem on ARM is that we treat
'-kernel but this is an ELF file' and '-kernel and this is a
binary blob' differently.

-- PMM