[Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri Feb 13 13:11:20 EST 2009


On 13.02.2009 01:43, David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:26:46AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>   
>> I didn't mean to say they are a bad idea for FDTs, just that they're on
>> an awkward level of abstraction for QEMU configuration.  There, I'd
>> rather express a PCI address as "02:01.0" than as <0x00000220>.
>> Translating text to binary is the machine's job, not the user's.
>>     
>
> Ah, I see what you mean.  Hrm, there are several possibilities here,
> we'll have to see which works out best for your purposes.
>   

Using the DTC version included in the coreboot v3 sources would solve
that problem and give you a readable PCI address representation.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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