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

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The versatile and readview boards both have PCI.

PCI shouldn't be too hairy.  As long as the PCI bridge node is created
with the right properties for ranges and irq mapping, then the child
devices can be detected by the OS.  Unlike the configuration case, I
don't have to fully populate this part of the tree.  :-D

> The realview-eb-mpcore in
> particular has entertaining IRQ routing.

Fun.  I'll probably look at this first.

>  The Stellaris boards have various
> devices hanging off I2C/SSI busses and/or GPO pins (though the stellaris
> boards aren't capable of running linux).

I'll skip that for now then.

> The musicpal audio device may also be
> interesting as it's connected vi both i2s and gpio based i2c.  All these
> should be fairly well qdev-ified.

This looks like a good candidate too then.  Getting i2c, spi and gpio
sorted out is higher priority for me right now than pci.

> Arguably the most interesting is the PPC boards as we already know what device
> tree we need to generate.  However these haven't been converted to qdev yet,
> and it's unclear how well the 4xx boards work to start with.

:-)

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll keep you posted on how things go.
g.

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