Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API

[Paul Brook]

> >  > I don't think the ptr property can be used to construct OpenFirmware
> >  > properties, because the length of the data is not handled.
> >
> > This is intended to be used to link between devices. An OF implementation
> >  would probably use a phandle. I may rename to device/object to clarify.
>
> Still, it would be useful to have a way for the devices to be able to
> export strings and blobs to the device tree.

Right. ptr is the wrong way to represent those though :-)

Note that I don't intend for devices to modify the configuration data. qemu 
may want to manipulate it bit to support commandline driven machine 
modifications (like -net nic), but that bit doesn't exist yet.

Paul