From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: John Williams <john.williams@petalogix.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
"Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>,
Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] arm: add device tree support
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:04:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F29384F.6070404@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACPZLaVNZPUx6FBg3LvHKBiNx_2s1g-fEE7Ef46QTu+hD7jfMQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/31/2012 08:40 PM, John Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>>
>> Globals are even worse!
>>
>> Can't you hear the kernel loader begging to be turned into a device? It's
>> pleading with us to stop abusing other parts of QEMU and make it a first
>> class citizen of QEMU.
>
> Is there some kind of initialisation phase where such a device can do its thing?
>
> Unless I'm missing something a "loader" device will be racing the rest
> of the VM after reset to populate the memory with the desired
> contents, no?
How does it race? Devices normally never touch memory so a loader device will
be the only thing mucking with memory.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-01 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 0:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] arm: add device tree support Grant Likely
2012-02-01 1:10 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-01 1:35 ` Paul Brook
2012-02-01 1:44 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-01 2:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-01 2:40 ` John Williams
2012-02-01 13:04 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2012-02-01 13:10 ` Peter Maydell
2012-02-01 13:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-01 13:32 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-01 13:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-01 13:49 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-01 13:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-01 13:55 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-01 15:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-01 17:38 ` Grant Likely
2012-02-01 20:59 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-01 2:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-22 19:42 ` Peter Maydell
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