Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] arm: add device tree support

[Anthony Liguori]

On 01/31/2012 08:40 PM, John Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Globals are even worse!
> >
> > Can't you hear the kernel loader begging to be turned into a device?  It's
> > pleading with us to stop abusing other parts of QEMU and make it a first
> > class citizen of QEMU.
>
> Is there some kind of initialisation phase where such a device can do its thing?
>
> Unless I'm missing something a "loader" device will be racing the rest
> of the VM after reset to populate the memory with the desired
> contents, no?

How does it race?  Devices normally never touch memory so a loader device will 
be the only thing mucking with memory.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> John