Boot from flash-rom with qemu-system-arm

Question

Is it possible to emulate boot from flash memory using qemu-system-arm? (Using Integrator/CP motherboard)

I'm able to boot using qemu's -kernel option, but if I try using an option such as -pflash, qemu generates an error telling me that I must use the -kernel option. Is there any way around this?

Answer 1

-kernel maps the binary file into memory space and boots from it. I believe it's different from flash booting only in that it does not support CFI or similar commands and the memory is writable. Is that important for you? What exactly do you need from "flash boot"?

P.S. the option description says:

-pflash file use 'file' as a parallel flash image

So it seems even if you do that, you still need some bootloader code that would access that flash and load code from it.