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authorAlistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>2016-09-22 18:13:07 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2016-09-22 18:13:07 +0100
commit8cf6e9daca19e08216cf09e523d1dcdf3cfdaec7 (patch)
tree5353ce4f931eb3212601a125e534e912173e2182 /include/hw/loader.h
parent1372fc0b87b80634313ad332279f9c7ca0583862 (diff)
loader: Allow ELF loader to auto-detect the ELF arch
If the caller didn't specify an architecture for the ELF machine the load_elf() function will auto detect it based on the ELF file. Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Message-id: f2d70b47fcad31445f947f8817a0e146d80a046b.1474331683.git.alistair.francis@xilinx.com Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/include/hw/loader.h b/include/hw/loader.h
index 4879b63a2f..c59673dfc5 100644
--- a/include/hw/loader.h
+++ b/include/hw/loader.h
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ const char *load_elf_strerror(int error);
* load will fail if the target ELF does not match. Some architectures
* have some architecture-specific behaviours that come into effect when
* their particular values for @elf_machine are set.
+ * If @elf_machine is EM_NONE then the machine type will be read from the
+ * ELF header and no checks will be carried out against the machine type.
*/
int load_elf(const char *filename, uint64_t (*translate_fn)(void *, uint64_t),