On Tuesday 24 October 2006 01:12, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Hello Paul, > > Monday, October 23, 2006, 11:29:52 PM, you wrote: > > On Monday 23 October 2006 21:01, Rob Landley wrote: > >> On Sunday 22 October 2006 2:27 pm, Paul Brook wrote: > >> > I've been considering a machine config file for a while, but haven't > >> > come up with a coherent way of representing everything yet. > > I'm glad this discussion was brought up on the list. And I'd like > to also bring back another related issue - what about providing > "plugin" system for device (chip) implementation, in addition to > flexible-format machine config allowing to construct "virtual boards" > out of them?
IMHO we already have a fairly good device model, and it's not hard to add new devices. If you mean putting individual devices in shared libraries and dlopen'ing them at runtime then I have no interest in that. AFAICS the only reason for wanting to do this is to use closed-source device models. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
