Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 2/11/09, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>   
>> I think your approach is pretty sound.  A few observations:
>>
>>  1) obviously need to eliminate the code duplication
>>
>>  2) the new code should fit with the rest of QEMU stylistically
>>
>>  3) I'd prefer incremental vs. perfect so let's try to do as much
>> refactoring that will be required before actually going the full 9 yards and
>> implementing the config file.
>>
>>  4) we don't have to solve all problems all at once as long as we don't
>> regress existing features
>>     
>
> I'd still want to see if a FDT based solution is possible before
> taking a homebrew version.
>   

I think I mentioned earlier that I am heavily bias toward a FDT 
solution.  What I'm suggesting though is that we can do some of the 
required cleanup (like device refactoring) before introducing any of the 
tree stuff.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori