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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data
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To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Cc: devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 03:11 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 13.02.2009 01:43, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:26:46AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >   
> >> I didn't mean to say they are a bad idea for FDTs, just that they're on
> >> an awkward level of abstraction for QEMU configuration.  There, I'd
> >> rather express a PCI address as "02:01.0" than as <0x00000220>.
> >> Translating text to binary is the machine's job, not the user's.
> >>     
> >
> > Ah, I see what you mean.  Hrm, there are several possibilities here,
> > we'll have to see which works out best for your purposes.
> >   
> 
> Using the DTC version included in the coreboot v3 sources would solve
> that problem and give you a readable PCI address representation.

As would the proposed language enhancements I suggested.

jdl