Re: [PATCH] generic-loader: remove the ram_size limit when a loading binary file

[Damien Hedde]

On 10/6/21 13:49, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 10/6/21 13:37, Damien Hedde wrote:
> > Right now, we cannot load some binary file if it is bigger than the
> > machine's ram size. This limitation only occurs when loading a
> > binary file: we can load a corresponding elf file without this
> > limitation.
> >
> > This is an issue for machines that have small ram or do not use the
> > ram_size feature at all.
> >
> > Also get rid of "hw/boards.h" include, since we needed it only
> > to access `current_machine`.
> >
> > Fixes: e481a1f63c9 ("generic-loader: Add a generic loader")
> > Signed-off-by: Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Hi Alistair,
> >
> > I found this while experimenting with a ram_size=0 machine.



> Where are you loading your file?

In a rom.

The loader does not check at all that we are loading to the machine's 
ram. It just check the size for the raw binary file format.

--
Damien