Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 1/6] hw/arm/virt: add a xgmac device

[Andreas Färber]

Am 11.04.2014 07:41, schrieb Alistair Francis:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 10.04.14 15:26, Peter Crosthwaite wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Eric Auger <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Initial attempts to convince QEMU to create a memory mapped device
>>>> on the command line (e.g., -device vfio-platform,name=fff51000.ethernet)
>>>> would fail with "Parameter 'driver' expects pluggable device type".
>>>
>>> Alistair is working on this. cc.
>>
>> Alaistair, I've had patches tackle this on the mailing list a few months ago
>> and received good comments from Anthony on what to change. How far in are
>> you already? I'd like to make sure we're on the same page here (and don't
>> duplicate work).
> 
> Hey Alex,
> 
> I have a patch I'm about to send to the mailing list. It allows an
> entire machine to be added by the -device argument on the command
> line. It is a similar implementation to my first version (vl.c: Allow
> sysbus devices to be attached via commandline), but much more generic.
[...]
> At the moment I
> don't have much feedback to my implementation

Your implementation came at a time where many of us were still busy
contributing fixes to and testing the 2.0 release.

Regards,
Andreas

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