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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] allwinner-a10: add config script support
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>, Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 26 December 2013 19:40, Hans de Goede<hdegoede@redhat.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I'm one of the linux-sunxi developers, the only reason we've
>> this fex file abomination, is because we've inherited it
>> from the android-allwinner sources.
>>      
> Thanks for the clarification; I suspected that might be the case.
>
>    
>> Currently most of the linux-sunxi developers are no longer
>> focusing on the 3.4 android/allwinner derived sources we
>> maintain. They are currently in a "good enough for everyday
>> use" state.
>>
>> So now most of us are focusing on getting *proper* sunxi
>> SoC support upstream. This is using device-tree. Currently
>> we've working timers, interrupt-controller, uarts, mmc,
>> sata, nic (both 100mbit and Gbit variants), ehci controller
>> and builtin rtc support with upstream kernels. Which I
>> believe likely covers everything the qemu emulation offers
>> atm. For those interested, see:
>> https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/commits/sunxi-devel
>>
>> And the mailinglist reports about progress in that branch.
>>
>>  From the linux-sunxi pov fex files are a legacy thing which
>> will go away in the future.
>>      
> Given that, my preference would be to not support fex
> file loading in QEMU.
>
>
>    

that means we don't care legacy script which already be used
in most of cases?