Akita (and probably all Spitz-like / PXA270) platform does not load BIOS binary Description of problem: QEMU does not appear to load a binary file passed with the "-bios" argument for the "akita" target. This probably extends to other spitz-type systems. Exptected behavior: qemu loads the binary into address 0x0000. Actual behavior: address space at 0x0000 contains only zeros. Steps to reproduce: Terminal 1: ``` qemu-system-arm -M akita -bios c750.rom -s -S ``` Terminal 2: ``` gdb-multiarch target remote localhost:1234 x/64i $pc ``` Result: ``` => 0x0: andeq r0, r0, r0 0x4: andeq r0, r0, r0 0x8: andeq r0, r0, r0 0xc: andeq r0, r0, r0 0x10: andeq r0, r0, r0 ``` Correct behavior (can demonstrate with virt machine): Same as before, but start Terminal 1 with: ``` qemu-system-arm -M akita -bios c750.rom -s -S ``` Result: ``` => 0x0: b 0x34 0x4: ldr pc, [pc, #156] ; 0xa8 0x8: ldr pc, [pc, #156] ; 0xac 0xc: ldr pc, [pc, #156] ; 0xb0 0x10: ldr pc, [pc, #156] ; 0xb4 0x14: nop ; (mov r0, r0) 0x18: ldr pc, [pc, #152] ; 0xb8 0x1c: ldr pc, [pc, #152] ; 0xbc 0x20: mov r0, #128 ; 0x80 0x24: b 0x2c 0x28: mov r0, #129 ; 0x81 0x2c: ldr r1, [pc, #140] ; 0xc0 0x30: str r0, [r1] 0x34: mrs lr, CPSR 0x38: bic lr, lr, #31 0x3c: orr lr, lr, #211 ; 0xd3 0x40: msr CPSR_fc, lr ``` Additional information: File with very tiny boot ROM: [c750-tiny.rom](/uploads/045852c8b353174bf0b7a4193d0d1be0/c750-tiny.rom)