Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 1/6] hw/arm/virt: add a xgmac device

[Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
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> On 10.04.14 15:26, Peter Crosthwaite wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org> wrote:
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>>> From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@linaro.org>
>>>
>>> This is a hack and only serves as an example of what needs to be
>>> done to make the next RFC - add vfio-platform support - work
>>> for development purposes on a Calxeda Midway system.  We don't want
>>> mach-virt to always create this ethernet device - DO NOT APPLY, etc.
>>>
>>> Initial attempts to convince QEMU to create a memory mapped device
>>> on the command line (e.g., -device vfio-platform,name=fff51000.ethernet)
>>> would fail with "Parameter 'driver' expects pluggable device type".
>>
>> Alistair is working on this. cc.
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>
> Alaistair, I've had patches tackle this on the mailing list a few months ago
> and received good comments from Anthony on what to change. How far in are
> you already? I'd like to make sure we're on the same page here (and don't
> duplicate work).
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>
> Alex
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>

Hey Alex,

I have a patch I'm about to send to the mailing list. It allows an
entire machine to be added by the -device argument on the command
line. It is a similar implementation to my first version (vl.c: Allow
sysbus devices to be attached via commandline), but much more generic.

Could you point me to your patches so I can compare? At the moment I
don't have much feedback to my implementation

Thanks,

Alistair