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

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Certainly.  What would be a good (preferably ARM) platform to look at?
 I'm fairly new to working with QEMU, so I'm not very familiar with
the platforms that are available.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.