Re: [Qemu-devel] plugins

[Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>]

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On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 14:49 +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> With a plugin system (all it takes is 2 files: an text/XML file which 
> contains the info on this plugin, and a .so file which is the plugin 
> itself) both closed source and open source developers can add lots of 
> hardware to QEMU which can be used for driver development on Linux and 
> on Windows (as well other guest OS's) without having the real hardware.

2 files? whatever goes in the text/xml file can go inside the DSO just
as easily...

> Have you ever thought to write driver for Linux for some hardware (which 
> someone can writes a plugin) without having it? now you (potentially) can..

All I'd like to see changed in the device API is the ability to have a
bit more control over where devices go and make all devices clean to be
used multiple times (ie. like you can have as many NICs as you like).
Then I'd like to see hw/pc.c and hw/ppc.c etc.. go away to be replaced
with 'hardware description files'...

I think that if you wanted to allow the same code to be used by each of
the different CPU emulations, that would be more difficult and could
slow things down at runtime.

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