Re: Testing a microcontroller emulation by loading the binary on incomplete Flash emulation

[Gautam Bhat]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 10:18 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 15:37, Gautam Bhat <mindentropy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am to implement a very simple microcontroller for my understanding
> > of Qemu development. This microcontroller runs its code from
> > programmable flash which is bit-, byte- and word addressable. To do
> > some initial tests of my nascent microcontroller implementation I
> > would like to load a very simple program binary. Is there a way to
> > load this binary and start execution without emulating Flash
> > controller and memory?
>
> Just create a plain old RAM memory region, and then load the
> guest binary into it with the 'generic loader' (which can
> take an ELF file or a raw binary).
>
> -- PMM

Thanks. I will check it out.