Hi, On 26/07/07, Paul Borman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
QEmu Target Configuration - I would like to define a configuration file syntax (I cannot help but think back to my BSDi days and the BSD/ OS kernel configuration file) that would define the hardware from the outside. Device drivers would either need to be already linked in, or be able to be dynamically loaded. I would expect that things such as the memory map, type of interrupt controller, the various devices along with their io port and memory addresses and interrupts would be defined here. Again, this would not replace the current system, but would essentially be a new init module. I do not want to see any working configurations break.
There is some interesting work being done on a similar project by Paul Sokolovsky for his and Maria Zabolotnaya's Google Summer Of Project. In their approach machine descriptions (but not only) are written in python, which lets you hope that they can have a simple syntax, practically like a config file, if desired, or a much more powerful one, so it seems to be a better idea than plain config files. Personally though I don't see much benefit to simple syntax config files over C files, that are being used now. Regards
