On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:00:31 +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > 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.
Really? Take a look at ppc_prep_init()... I would love to see machine definition done in python. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center
