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Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features
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Natalia Portillo |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Jul 2004 01:59:10 +0000 |
* 1 Chipset (Intel Natoma)
We should have more?
If anyone can put more, great!
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden
> En nombre de Hetz Ben Hamo
> Enviado el: viernes, 09 de julio de 2004 22:51
> Para: address@hidden
> Asunto: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features
>
> Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As porting the SDL version to other OSes than Linux seems
> to become an
> > important issue, I plan to add the following features in
> the next days:
>
> I would like to raise an issue which I'm not sure if it was
> looked closely..
>
> Lets see what do we have today:
>
> * 3 Busses (ISA, ISA PnP, PCI)
> * 4 Processors (Pentium Pro, Arm, PPC, Sparc)
> * 4 Network cards (NE2000 ISA, AMD PCNet, NE2000 PCI, 3COM PnP ISA)
> * 2 Graphics cards (VESA, Cirrus Logic)
> * 2 Bioses (PPC BIOS, Generic Bochs/QEMU BIOS)
> * 2 hard drive formats (RAW, COW)
>
> And I'm sure I have forgotten few things, not mentioning QEMU
> is not that publicallyy published (wait for Slashdot effect)..
>
> I think that something needed here: A plugin mechanism.
>
> What I was thinking that QEMU missing is a way that upon
> running QEMU (either first time or doing a first scan), it
> should "scan" for new hardware and register them as plugins
> (with depenedencies, so you cannot use PPC BIOS with Pentium
> Pro processor ;) ). That way a new plugin (either open or
> closed source) can register itself and a user can simply use
> it without having to configure everything..
>
> The method I was thinking was something like Xine player uses
> when initializing the player..
>
> Fabrice, others, what do you think about it?
>
> Thanks,
> Hetz
>
>
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features,
Natalia Portillo <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Hetz Ben Hamo, 2004/07/09
- RE: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Natalia Portillo, 2004/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Antony T Curtis, 2004/07/09
- RE: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Natalia Portillo, 2004/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Jim C. Brown, 2004/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Hetz Ben Hamo, 2004/07/09
- RE: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Natalia Portillo, 2004/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Fabrice Bellard, 2004/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Fabrice Bellard, 2004/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Antony T Curtis, 2004/07/10