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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine description, an alternativ using XML
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Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Torbj=F6rn_Andersson?= <tobbe.tt@home.se>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

Paul Brook wrote:
>>   <OBJECT name="pic" class="pl190">
>>     <ATTRIBUTE name="pic">	<value obj_ref=":cpu"/>  </ATTRIBUTE>
>>     <ATTRIBUTE name="memmap">	<value obj_ref=":memmap"/>  </ATTRIBUTE>
>>     <ATTRIBUTE name="base">	<value integer="0xc0010000"/>  </ATTRIBUTE>
>>   </OBJECT>
>> <MACHINE/>
>>     
>
> It looks like you're just using XML to encapsulate simple <key,value> pairs, 
> which IMHO is completely the wrong way to use XML. Qemu already has to know 
> about things like IO regions, IRQs, bus bindings. XML gives you the power to 
> describe these things properly, rather than relying on clumsy naming 
> conventions.
>   

I'm really don't want to see this get furthered rat holed.  Since we all 
seemed relatively happy with the device tree as a configuration file, 
can we agree to that firmly and avoid this discussion?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori