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Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files
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Blue Swirl |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:04:09 +0200 |
On 11/14/08, Paul Brook <address@hidden> wrote:
> It's come up in other contexts recently, so I think it's worth mentioning that
> I am currently working on adding a machine config file support to qemu.
>
> I am focusing on the board setup side of things, rather than the user-level
> config side. My goal is to come up with a system that will allow e.g. the
> entirety of realview.c and gumstix.c to be eliminated. Currently this is
> based this round Flattened Device Trees (as used by ppc-linux).
>
> I have looked at the bits that Fabrice did a while ago. While that contains
> some good ideas (which I will probably steal!) it is approaching the problem
> from a somewhat different direction. FTDs are a much better fit for some of
> my requirements (e.g. being able to pass the config through to the guest OS).
libfdt looks like an excellent choice for both Sparc32 and Sparc64, I
think the whole OF tree can be represented with it.
The config could be passed using the firmware configuration device.
- [Qemu-devel] Machine config files, Paul Brook, 2008/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files, Hollis Blanchard, 2008/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files,
Blue Swirl <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files, Hollis Blanchard, 2008/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files, Hollis Blanchard, 2008/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files, Paul Brook, 2008/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files, David Gibson, 2008/11/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files, David Gibson, 2008/11/16