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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 17:52:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image
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On 4 April 2013 17:51, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
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> On 04.04.2013, at 18:41, Peter Maydell wrote
>> No, in general this isn't what -bios does. Usually -bios means
>> "take a blob and put it wherever this board expects to have
>> a ROM or flash firmware image".

> For blobs, I agree. But for ELF, we could just use the ELF
> information to load it somewhere else. It would certainly
> be a much more natural fit than -kernel.

OK, and then how do you say "load the usual firmware but I have
a binary blob I want to run" ?

-- PMM