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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:15:42 +0100
From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data
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To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Cc: devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 13.02.2009 21:04, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> 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.
>   

Do you have a pointer to the archives for that?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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