Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Borman
The platform I started with was ppc_prep :-) So, is Python already part of qemu? Personally, I would have a goal that the definition of a device would be simple enough that there would be no reason to have anything more complicated than a simple text file. While I would not suggest that t

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Borman
The embedded space contains a vast number of boards, often only different by what devices are use, where they are located, etc. Building a new version of qemu for each board would be burdensome. The hope would be that we could build a generic qemu (for an architecture family), say, ppc_ge

[Qemu-devel] QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool

2007-07-26 Thread Paul Borman
QEmu to use dlopen () to load in arbitrary shim layers to libraries. There are other areas as well, such as deterministic execution, etc. If anyone else is interested in these topics, please let me know. Paul Borman Principal Technologist Wind River Systems