diff --git a/src/mainboard/emulation/qemu-armv7/memlayout.ld b/src/mainboard/emulation/qemu-armv7/memlayout.ld
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+/*
+ * This file is part of the coreboot project.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2014 Google Inc.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ */
+
+#include <memlayout.h>
+
+#include <arch/header.ld>
+
+/*
+ * Memory map for qemu vexpress-a9:
+ *
+ * 0x0000_0000: jump instruction (by qemu)
+ * 0x0001_0000: bootblock (entry of kernel / firmware)
+ * 0x0002_0000: romstage, assume up to 128KB in size.
+ * 0x0007_ff00: stack pointer
+ * 0x0010_0000: CBFS header
+ * 0x0011_0000: CBFS data
+ * 0x0100_0000: reserved for ramstage
+ * 0x1000_0000: I/O map address
+ */
+
+SECTIONS
+{
+	/* TODO: does this thing emulate SRAM? */
+
+	BOOTBLOCK(0x10000, 64K)
+	ROMSTAGE(0x20000, 128K)
+	STACK(0x000FC000, 16K)
+
+	DRAM_START(0x01000000)
+	RAMSTAGE(0x01000000, 16M)
+}