Re: [Qemu-devel] Machine config files

["Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 11/14/08, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> It's come up in other contexts recently, so I think it's worth mentioning that
>  I am currently working on adding a machine config file support to qemu.
>
>  I am focusing on the board setup side of things, rather than the user-level
>  config side.  My goal is to come up with a system that will allow e.g. the
>  entirety of realview.c and gumstix.c to be eliminated.  Currently this is
>  based this round Flattened Device Trees (as used by ppc-linux).
>
>  I have looked at the bits that Fabrice did a while ago. While that contains
>  some good ideas (which I will probably steal!) it is approaching the problem
>  from a somewhat different direction.  FTDs are a much better fit for some of
>  my requirements (e.g. being able to pass the config through to the guest OS).

libfdt looks like an excellent choice for both Sparc32 and Sparc64, I
think the whole OF tree can be represented with it.

The config could be passed using the firmware configuration device.