Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Machine description as data

[Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 2/12/09, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > * Point me to the FDT code I'm supposed to integrate.  I'm looking for
>  >   basic decorated tree stuff: create trees, traverse them, get and put
>  >   properties, add and delete nodes, read and write them as plain,
>  >   human-readable text.
>
>
> I've been threatening to merge my FDT code for a while, but haven't got round
>  to it.  I've attached A drop of my current code, along with a bunch of
>  example devices (I haven't yet converted any of the current machines).
>  The basic strategy is the devices should only have deal with this interface,
>  and not with teh config structures or the rest of qemu directly. Register
>  windows and interrupts are converted, but things like DMA accesses still use
>  the old interfaces.
>
>  Most of the devices (e.g. the serial port) support both new and old init
>  methods. A few (e.g. nand controller) are pure devtree based devices.

Looks good to me so far. It will be a big job to convert all devices, though.