On 26 December 2013 19:40, Hans de Goede<address@hidden> 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.