[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] QEMU patches to generate FDT from qdevs

Paul Brook paul at codesourcery.com
Fri Apr 9 22:07:22 EST 2010


> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is an experimental set of patches for populating the flattened
> device tree (fdt) data from the actual set of qdevs in the platform.
> I'm not expecting this to get merged anytime soon, but I wanted to get
> it out there to solicit comments.  My target for this is testing
> device tree support on ARM.

I think you need to convert some more interesting machines before it's 
possible to tell whether this is a sane setup. When investigating FDTs for 
creation of machine I found it's easy to invent something that can handle the 
simple integrator/cp board, but it all starts to fall apart when you encounter 
more complicated boards. In particular things like PCI, USB, I2C, etc. and 
strange bus configurations when you have both on-chip and external devices.

Paul


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