Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project

[Thiemo Seufer]

Brian Johnson wrote:
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>> My initial thought is to make the libraries at the individual device
>> level.
>
> It would be good to have a general mechanism for bus providers, interrupts, 
> APICs, chipsets, etc. as well, so we could emulate fancier architectures 
> than a simple PC (or simple Sparc/MIPS/ARM/etc. box.)  For instance, I'd 
> like to emulate multiple PCIe host bridges, each with an APIC and multiple 
> cards, which might contain PCI-to-PCI bridges.  And I'd like to emulate 
> NUMA systems with many memory controllers and a complex memory map, with 
> multiple sets of chipset registers.  I don't expect qemu to do this off the 
> shelf,

Why not? I would like to see better abstracted and more capable device
emulations in Qemu.

> but I'd like to avoid hardcoding PC assumptions into the device 
> libraries, so I can code the fancy machines myself and use the I/O as-is.

Then, what does a librar-ized Qemu device with its hardcoded PC
assumptions help you?

One reason why I don't like the idea is that it introduces a external
interface which is hard to maintain.


Thiemo