From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Likely Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] QEMU patches to generate FDT from qdevs Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 08:47:35 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20100407040129.20274.44284.stgit@angua> <201004091307.22473.paul@codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201004091307.22473.paul-qD8j1LwMmJjtCj0u4l0SBw@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org To: Paul Brook Cc: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, qemu-devel-qX2TKyscuCcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, jeremy.kerr-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Paul Brook 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. =A0My 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 enco= unter > more complicated boards. In particular things like PCI, USB, I2C, etc. and > strange bus configurations when you have both on-chip and external device= s. 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. -- = Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.