On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 12:34 +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > > This patch series models enough of the ASPEED AST2400 ARM9 SoC[0] to > > boot an aspeed_defconfig Linux kernel[1][2]. Specifically, the series > > implements the ASPEED timer and VIC devices, integrates them into an > > AST2400 SoC and exposes it all through a new opbmc2400 machine. The > > device model patches only partially implement the hardware features of > > the timer and VIC, again mostly just enough to boot Linux. > > Awesome! Nice to have these patches escaping the lab :) > > In terms of naming suggestions: I think this depends on what we're > looking to emulate here. I see two options: > > The qemu platform becomes a "reference" for OpenPOWER bmc hardware, but > doesn't necessarily align with an actual machine. In that case, > something generic like opbmc- would make sense. > > On the other hand, if we'd like to create qemu platforms that represent > actual machines (eg, the OpenPOWER "palmetto" machine), then > -bmc would seem more appropriate. In this case, the machine > name would be palmetto-bmc. No need to include the SoC name in that, as > it's defined by the hardware implementation. > > I think the latter option may be more generally useful.
Okay, agreed, I'll rework the change to use palmetto-bmc for the machine name. Thanks for the feedback. Andrew
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