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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data |
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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:25:52 +0000 |
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> Look, my goals are rather modest. I want to start where we are, put
> devices behind a nice abstract interface one by one, picking apart the
> pc.c hairball on the way. The idea is not to design the perfect,
> all-encompassing abstract device interface, just to capture what we
> need, and extend as we go. The abstract device interface makes a simple
> machine builder possible, driven by tree-structured configuration. That
> in turn makes it easier to make things configurable. Which can be
> expected to lead to more configurability, when and where there's a need
> for it.
>
> All this can be done in nice, safe baby steps. I don't need to come up
> with an all-singing machine description fit for a picky kernel before I
> can start doing something useful.
>
> Now, if you hand me such a configuration on a platter, I'd be a fool not
> to take it. The catch: I need one for a PC.
I suspect these two goals may be contradictory. The PC machine is so hairy
that you need a singing, dancing machine description to be able to describe
it.
OTOH if what you really want to do is configure the host binding side of
things, then as I've mentioned before, I see that as been somewhat separate
from the actual machine creation, and trying to combine the two is probably a
mistake. I really don't want users to have to hack the machine config just to
change the name of an image file.
Paul
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, David Gibson, 2009/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Markus Armbruster, 2009/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Paul Brook, 2009/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Markus Armbruster, 2009/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Paul Brook, 2009/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Markus Armbruster, 2009/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data,
Paul Brook <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Jamie Lokier, 2009/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Mitch Bradley, 2009/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Markus Armbruster, 2009/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Mitch Bradley, 2009/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, David Gibson, 2009/02/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Markus Armbruster, 2009/02/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, David Gibson, 2009/02/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Markus Armbruster, 2009/02/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Paul Brook, 2009/02/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data, Markus Armbruster, 2009/02/18