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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API |
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Tue, 5 May 2009 17:35:40 +0100 |
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> > > I don't think the ptr property can be used to construct OpenFirmware
> > > properties, because the length of the data is not handled.
> >
> > This is intended to be used to link between devices. An OF implementation
> > would probably use a phandle. I may rename to device/object to clarify.
>
> Still, it would be useful to have a way for the devices to be able to
> export strings and blobs to the device tree.
Right. ptr is the wrong way to represent those though :-)
Note that I don't intend for devices to modify the configuration data. qemu
may want to manipulate it bit to support commandline driven machine
modifications (like -net nic), but that bit doesn't exist yet.
Paul
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, Paul Brook, 2009/05/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, Anthony Liguori, 2009/05/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, Edgar E. Iglesias, 2009/05/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, Paul Brook, 2009/05/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, Paul Brook, 2009/05/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, Anthony Liguori, 2009/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, Anthony Liguori, 2009/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, Paul Brook, 2009/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, Anthony Liguori, 2009/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, malc, 2009/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API, Anthony Liguori, 2009/05/09