On 3 August 2018 at 17:39, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 3 August 2018 at 10:26, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 3 August 2018 at 11:23, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> Would the real hardware you are trying to be an example
>>> for use DT for this? It seems a bit unlikely to me.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, as a matter of fact. There is work underway both on the EDK2 and
>> the ARM-TF side to rely less on static descriptions, and more on DT to
>> instantiate drivers and ACPI tables at runtime rather than at build
>> time.
>
> Cool. (My motivation here is mostly to make sure that we
> build a model in QEMU that makes the right design choices to
> be an accurate reference platform, rather than doing things
> simply because 'virt' happens to do them.)
>
> Where would the hardware version of this put its DT ?
> In a flash memory ?
>
I would mention that smbios relies on fw_cfg to be passed to UEFI too,
so without fw_cfg, a flash becomes the way for it.

> thanks
> -- PMM

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