On 2012-01-31 15:57, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/31/2012 08:53 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2012-01-31 15:50, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> On 01/31/2012 08:38 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>> On 2012-01-26 20:00, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>>>> --- >>>>> hw/pc.c | 70 >>>>> ++++-------------------------------------------------- >>>>> hw/pc.h | 3 +- >>>>> hw/piix_pci.c | 74 >>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- >>>>> sysemu.h | 2 - >>>>> 4 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-) >>>> >>>> How does the ISA PC get its BIOS after this change? Or did that change >>>> in a step I miss right now? >>> >>> Oh, I broke it. I made no attempt to keep ISA PC working. >>> >>> The way I'd like to handle this is to introduce a ROM device so that this >>> code >>> would be trivialized. >> >> Or just keep the common pc.c library as I voted for. It has its purpose, >> obviously. > > Coding sharing needs to happen through device sharing. Otherwise we'll be > stuck > in the magic device creation through arbitrary functions rut that we > currently > find ourselves in.
Well, let's see what this will mean in practice. I'm sure that that there are steps in a PC construction that cannot be modeled reasonable even as pseudo devices but at still shared among boards. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
