Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-24 Thread Christian MICHON
IMHO, I believe: - python inside monitor is uncalled for (average python installation size is big, no ?) - xml is still too big a format for something we can do by shell script (joke: why not yaml ?) -- Christian ___ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel

Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-24 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 23 October 2006 7:33 pm, Paul Brook wrote: > My intention is that a machine config file would remove the "motherboard" bits > altogether. ie. the config file describes everything that pc_init_1 does. The > first half of pc.c would remain because that's device emulation. Sounds highl

Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-24 Thread Flavio Visentin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Brook wrote: > ram {base=0; size=RAM_SIZE, physaddr=0} > ram {base=0x8000; size=RAM_SIZE, physaddr=0} > integrator_core{ram_size=RAM_SIZE}; > arm_cpu_pic {cpu_index=0, pic_name="CPU0"} > integrator_pic {pic_name="PRIMARY", base=0x1400,pare

Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-24 Thread Christian MICHON
how about this ? (it's yaml, not xml) the idea would be to store all cfg in one file and switch at boot time which guest you want to boot... This is just a draft, and your mileage may vary. More readings at: http://yaml.org http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-matters23.html --- gues

Re: [Qemu-devel] AltGr key for Windows host

2006-10-24 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kazu wrote: > It seems that ctrl left event before right alt makes something wrong for > SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib. I updated binary. SDL is patched and updated. SDL > version is 1.2.11 so that windib is default. How about this one. It seems > that Knoppi

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QEMU: IDE support for mips

2006-10-24 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, The attached patch adds IDE support on the mips target. It has been written by Daniel Jacobowitz, and posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED], along with another patch. He told me it is ok to submit it. I am using it for a week, it works correctly. Could you apply it? Thanks, Aurelien -- .''`. Au

Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-24 Thread Blue Swirl
I'd recommend Qemu Launcher (https://gna.org/projects/qemulaunch). If Qemu gets a config file and a configuration utility, it should be similar in my opinion. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FR

Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-24 Thread Christian MICHON
On 10/24/06, Blue Swirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd recommend Qemu Launcher (https://gna.org/projects/qemulaunch). If Qemu gets a config file and a configuration utility, it should be similar in my opinion. I thought the qemu config file could be having the noble aim to be multi-host. Usin

[Qemu-devel] [patch] TOC support for raw cdrom block devices

2006-10-24 Thread Josh Elsasser
The current raw block drvice code fakes a TOC with one track covering the entire disc. With this patch it attempts to read the TOC from a cdrom device and make that information available to the ide driver when the guest issues an ATAPI READ TOC/PMA/ATIP type 0 (read TOC) command. There is only su

[Qemu-devel] [patch] slirp dhcp broadcast flag support

2006-10-24 Thread Josh Elsasser
This patch adds support for the dhcp broadcast flag to slirp's dhcp server. If a DHCP DISCOVER/REQUEST packet is recieved with the broadcast flag set then the response will be sent to 255.255.255.255. -jre Index: slirp/bootp.c === R

Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-24 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 23 October 2006 8:12 pm, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Yes, machine config apparently would be a hierarchical structure, > with cross-references. And well, there's an industrial standard to > represent that - XML. There's an interesting sort of natural selection at work in open source. An

Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-24 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 23 October 2006 9:38 pm, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Maybe. But where are new chips in qemu? Why there're still only 2 > ARM boards? How do I "stick" wi-fi card in one of them? So the concern > is not just if it's easy to add new devices or not, but if there're means > to actually support

Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-24 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 6:47 am, Flavio Visentin wrote: > At this point it's really cleaner and maybe simpler to use XML Have you ever implemented a validating XML parser? I have. It only _looks_ "clean and simple". Rob -- "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vs gcc4

2006-10-24 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 23 October 2006 2:37 pm, Paul Brook wrote: > It turn out that qemu already does most of the hard work, and a code > generation backend is fairly simple. The diff for my current implementation > is <2k lines of common code, plus <1k lines for each of x86, amd64 and ppc32 > hosts. My un

Re[2]: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello Rob, Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 2:28:47 AM, you wrote: > On Monday 23 October 2006 9:38 pm, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: >> Maybe. But where are new chips in qemu? Why there're still only 2 >> ARM boards? How do I "stick" wi-fi card in one of them? So the concern >> is not just if it's easy t

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vs gcc4

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Brook
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 00:39, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 23 October 2006 2:37 pm, Paul Brook wrote: > > It turn out that qemu already does most of the hard work, and a code > > generation backend is fairly simple. The diff for my current > > implementation is <2k lines of common code, plu