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

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 13.02.2009 21:04, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 03:11 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> As would the proposed language enhancements I suggested.
>   

Do you have a pointer to the archives for that?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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