Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration

[Mark Burton]

>> 
>> Totally agree on this (of course).
>> 
>> Thats why I’m here - I care about the people who care about emulation  :-)
>> 
>> In general, what we are working on is exactly the ability to service the 
>> ‘complex’ emulation use case. No CLI, nor single ‘config’ file will be good 
>> enough, in all cases we will need to drive directly into QMP.
> 
> Can you clarify when you say 'what we are working on' here who & what
> are you refering to ? Something Greensocs is developing or am I
> mis-interpreting ?

Yes - on behalf of Edgar and others.
There are various Device tree (or device tree like) syntaxes that people want 
to use to ‘configure’ a machine. A typical use case could potentially also 
include ‘CLI’ features as well for users to select files or whatever. (Wether 
that CLI is interpreted by QEMU or another mechanism isn’t very important).
Equally, GreenSocs itself would also like a ‘cleaner’ way to ‘instantiate’ QEMU 
within a different simulation environment - for that, we want to strip off the 
startup and essentially provide our own (hence Paolo’s rather simple code is 
very appealing). So those are 2 use cases we care about on our side.

Cheers
Mark

> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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