On 6 December 2011 13:12, Avi Kivity <avi at redhat.com> wrote: > On 12/06/2011 02:48 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> Real hardware runs the boot ROM. The boot ROM is an unredistributable >> binary blob, and in any case we almost certainly don't implement >> the hardware well enough to pass the boot ROM's self tests and init >> code. >> >> We could probably put the pen code in a QEMU-specific bit of ROM >> code in the same place the hardware boot ROM actually lives. > > That would be an improvement. Feel free to submit a patch :-) Anyway, I don't intend to make cleaning this up be a blocker for adding A15 system support. -- PMM