Re: [Simulavr-devel] fab feature deprecated

[Michael Hennebry]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2014, Markus Hitter wrote:

> Am 28.02.2014 20:33, schrieb Michael Hennebry:
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Onno Kortmann wrote:
> >
> > > But IMHO the general approach of having a text-based configuration file
> > > for AVR topologies, even if those files are kept up to date manually, is
> > > still a good idea. I think it is better than having C++ files filled
> > > with what is essentially just declarative configuration data. But I
> > > guess that's arguing about taste :-)
> >
> > No.  It is not.
> > Where to put data, in how many places and amongst
> > how much clutter is not just a matter of taste.
>
> To defend Onno a bit, such a file is already in use. It's the one used
> for tracing signals into VCD files. It's a single file in an arbitrary
> position, you pass a path to it as parameter. See -c and -o parameters
> for simulavr.

I'd thought this was already clear:
I was not attacking Onno's suggested code and data organization.
I was attacking the notion that the decision to be made is just about taste.
The notion had it coming.

> Extending this file to also hold stuff like CPU frequency or connected
> devices (one line each) with an idiot-proof syntax appears to be
> plausible. SIMINFO inside the AVR binary would go away, as well as
> changes to ELF reading and this shared header file.

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