Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] target-xtensa: xtfpga: support noMMU cores

[Max Filippov]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Peter Maydell
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29 September 2015 at 11:34, Max Filippov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Changing address space layout according to CPU type is what happens
>> in actual hardware. There are no user-controllable settings that would
>> allow mismatching address space layout and CPU type on XTFPGA
>> boards. There's also no SoC level mentioned in the developer guides
>> for the corresponding boards. So I'm not sure what you're proposing to do.
>
> I think this should clearly be different machine models
> (possibly implemented using different SoC models).

There are already 4 different machine models, lx60, lx200, ml605 and
kc705, these are real boards for which bitstreams can be created.

> This isn't a
> CPU-dependent thing at all, it's just your dev tools are hiding
> "change the devices and other board/soc level things" behind a
> CPU-type dropdown, which it can get away with because the whole
> implementation is in a single FPGA.

Why duplicating each machine and then only allowing each CPU to be
used with only one variant of each machine? It doesn't match what
users do with boards and bitstreams, at all.

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max