Introduce the new boolean field "arm_boot_info.firmware_loaded". When this
field is set, it means that the portion of guest DRAM that the VCPU
normally starts to execute, or the pflash chip that the VCPU normally
starts to execute, has been populated by board-specific code with
full-fledged guest firmware code, before the board calls
arm_load_kernel().
Simultaneously, "arm_boot_info.firmware_loaded" guarantees that the board
code has set up the global firmware config instance, for arm_load_kernel()
to find with fw_cfg_find().
Guest kernel (-kernel) and guest firmware (-bios, -pflash) has always been
possible to specify independently on the command line. The following cases
should be considered:
nr -bios -pflash -kernel description
unit#0
-- ------- ------- ------- -------------------------------------------
1 present present absent Board code rejects this case, -bios and
present present present -pflash unit#0 are exclusive. Left intact
by this patch.
2 absent absent present Traditional kernel loading, with qemu's
minimal board firmware. Left intact by this
patch.
3 absent present absent Preexistent case for booting guest firmware
present absent absent loaded with -bios or -pflash. Left intact
by this patch.
4 absent absent absent Preexistent case for not loading any
firmware or kernel up-front. Left intact by
this patch.
5 present absent present New case introduced by this patch: kernel
absent present present image is passed to externally loaded
firmware in unmodified form, using fw_cfg.
An easy way to see that this patch doesn't interfere with existing cases
is to realize that "info->firmware_loaded" is constant zero at this point.
Which makes the "outer" condition unchanged, and the "inner" condition
(with the fw_cfg-related code) dead.
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1419250305-31062-11-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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