From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXncA-0000Nz-L6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:17:14 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXnc9-0000Nn-5T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:17:13 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36156 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXnc9-0000Nk-0V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:17:13 -0500 Received: from e23smtp09.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.142]:50940) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXnc8-0003rT-8q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:17:12 -0500 Received: from d23relay01.au.ibm.com (d23relay01.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.243]) by e23smtp09.au.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n1D2A3B5006939 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:10:03 +1100 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.97]) by d23relay01.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id n1D2H8Pp233542 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:17:08 +1100 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n1D2H8RK021357 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:17:08 +1100 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:17:04 +1100 From: David Gibson Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data Message-ID: <20090213021704.GA10476@yookeroo.seuss> References: <87iqnh6kyv.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <1234378228.28751.79.camel@slate.austin.ibm.com> <20090212040138.GD31142@yookeroo.seuss> <87iqng0x3t.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <20090213004305.GB8104@yookeroo.seuss> <4994D6C8.5050004@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4994D6C8.5050004@gmx.net> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org, Markus Armbruster , Hollis Blanchard , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:11:20AM +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. Hrm.. it would be nice if you'd co-ordinated with Jon and I about this. Then we could have at least the bits which make sense in upstream dtc... -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson