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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch 1/2] switch support v2
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Laurent Vivier |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch 1/2] switch support v2 |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:31:55 +0100 |
Le mardi 18 décembre 2007 à 08:40 -1000, Armin a écrit :
> Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > Le lundi 17 décembre 2007 à 09:40 -1000, Armin a écrit :
> >
> >> Laurent Vivier wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> if you just want to configure which bank to use with pflash, perhaps you
> >>> can do something like:
> >>>
> >>> qemu -drive if=pflash,unit=0
> >>>
> >>> to use the first bank, and
> >>>
> >>> qemu -drive if=pflash,unit=1
> >>>
> >>> to use the second bank.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Yes, that might work for the flash case but does not address other
> >> switches settings. In my case, the Mainstone has two rotary switches
> >> that define which frequency to boot up in.
> >>
> >
> > But I don't think qemu able to emulate frequency ?
> > So it should be useless.
> >
> I am sure that is true and my example might be very week in the above case.
> I think if a board we are trying to emulate has boot time configurations
> governed by jumpers or switches for enabling or disabling certain
> hardware devices , then having a runtime solution seems more
> appropriate. It seems silly to have to rebuild to qemu if one wants to
> switch device A to be uart #2 from an IrdA device when using "-switches
> 1=on" could do the same.
Well, my opinion is not really important here, but I think "-switches
1=on" is too low level... using the "meaning" could be more
user-friendly, something like "-deviceA uart2".
Regards,
Laurent
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- [Qemu-devel] [Patch 1/2] switch support v2, Armin, 2007/12/16
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch 1/2] switch support v2, Armin, 2007/12/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch 1/2] switch support v2, Johannes Schindelin, 2007/12/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch 1/2] switch support v2, Laurent Vivier, 2007/12/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch 1/2] switch support v2, Armin, 2007/12/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch 1/2] switch support v2, Laurent Vivier, 2007/12/17
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