Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Stellaris machine config

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

M P wrote:
> So now, with qdev, it's all official, /every value, constant, and
> bitfield/ is hard coded, in hex, into a different non-code file, with
> no way of derivating or overloading from.
[...]
> In fact,
> the stellaris share /a lot/ between themselves, and there is not a
> single shared line between your two stellaris boards definition file.

This is a good point.

I guess FDT is missing a "#include" equivalent, and possibly name
constants.

That isn't surprising given FDT's original use, to pass an entire
machine description to a running kernel.

But for QEMU, some way to give names to, say, a standard SoC or a
basic board, or a PC without peripherals, and then refer to them in
another FDT tree, would be useful.

Whether it's done in QEMU itself or by preprocessing doesn't matter.
Preprocessing would have the advantage that it would output FDTs that
could, maybe, be passed to the guest kernel and just work.  Or maybe
QEMU can have a tree preprocessor built in.

-- Jamie