On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 October 2009 23:49:04 Grant Likely wrote:
>>
>> However, I've completely devoted to this work for at least the next
>> two months, so there are plenty more patches to follow.  Once I've
>> got all the common code merged between Microblaze, PowerPC and Sparc
>> I'll be fix the endian problems and making it easily usable by other
>> architectures like ARM and MIPS.  Lots of work to be done.
>
> Is there any news on getting QEMU to parse a device tree to figure out what
> hardware to emulate?  (I.E. using the device tree code to let qemu provide
> configurable board emulations instead of hardwiring them in C code?)

Not that I have, but I expect that I will be hacking on QEMU as part
of this work.

> Also, what would be involved in getting x86 to (at least have the option to)
> use the device tree stuff?

It would be very easy once the endian issues are worked out since the
device tree is just a data format to be parsed.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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