From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IEBqU-0008DM-5S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:30:10 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IEBqS-00089v-1p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:30:09 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IEBqR-00089p-M6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:30:07 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IEBqR-0003k1-9g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:30:07 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IEBqL-0001cF-UF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:30:01 +0200 Received: from user-0vvdafg.cable.mindspring.com ([63.246.169.240]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:30:01 +0200 Received: from hollisb by user-0vvdafg.cable.mindspring.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:30:01 +0200 From: Hollis Blanchard Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <001201c7cade$8118b8e0$ba00a8c0@kone> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:00:31 +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > There is some interesting work being done on a similar project by Paul > Sokolovsky for his and Maria Zabolotnaya's Google Summer Of Project. > In their approach machine descriptions (but not only) are written in > python, which lets you hope that they can have a simple syntax, > practically like a config file, if desired, or a much more powerful > one, so it seems to be a better idea than plain config files. > > Personally though I don't see much benefit to simple syntax config > files over C files, that are being used now. Really? Take a look at ppc_prep_init()... I would love to see machine definition done in python. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center