From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GcVhv-0002Ts-BH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:29:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GcVht-0002TI-RW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:29:19 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcVht-0002TF-Nt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:29:17 -0400 Received: from [71.162.243.5] (helo=grelber.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GcVht-0003rd-Id for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:29:17 -0400 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:28:47 -0400 References: <200610240136.41311.paul@codesourcery.com> <1893885600.20061024043855@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1893885600.20061024043855@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610241928.47477.rob@landley.net> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Sokolovsky Cc: Paul Brook On Monday 23 October 2006 9:38 pm, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Maybe. But where are new chips in qemu? Why there're still only 2 > ARM boards? How do I "stick" wi-fi card in one of them? So the concern > is not just if it's easy to add new devices or not, but if there're means > to actually support appearance and growth of device library. Plugin system > would be a "decree" that there's a stable API to define devices and > welcome for 3rd-party developers to develop them. Because the lack of a stable internal API has completely prevented Linux from getting any sort of device support. It runs on far less hardware than things like Solaris, with such a stable API... > P.S. This is not a troll People who are not trolling generally don't have to _say_ they aren't trolling. Rob -- "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery