On 26 December 2013 19:40, Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> wrote: > I'm one of the linux-sunxi developers, the only reason we've > this fex file abomination, is because we've inherited it > from the android-allwinner sources.
Thanks for the clarification; I suspected that might be the case. > Currently most of the linux-sunxi developers are no longer > focusing on the 3.4 android/allwinner derived sources we > maintain. They are currently in a "good enough for everyday > use" state. > > So now most of us are focusing on getting *proper* sunxi > SoC support upstream. This is using device-tree. Currently > we've working timers, interrupt-controller, uarts, mmc, > sata, nic (both 100mbit and Gbit variants), ehci controller > and builtin rtc support with upstream kernels. Which I > believe likely covers everything the qemu emulation offers > atm. For those interested, see: > https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/commits/sunxi-devel > > And the mailinglist reports about progress in that branch. > > From the linux-sunxi pov fex files are a legacy thing which > will go away in the future. Given that, my preference would be to not support fex file loading in QEMU. thanks -- PMM
