Re: About creating machines on the command line

[Liviu Ionescu]

> On 14 Jan 2021, at 12:56, Luc Michel <luc.michel@greensocs.com> wrote:
> 
> ... But yes the goal here is to rely on QEMU's already existing device models 
> to dynamically create a machine.

I did not check the current QEMU device models, so I might be wrong, but I 
think that the scope might be slightly different.

In my fork I read the JSON with the detailed peripherals definitions, which 
include not only memory address, but registers, sizes, alignment, bit-fields, 
access right, reset values, etc, and from these definitions I automatically 
create the QEMU objects.

The result is a device with all registers available, you can already read/write 
all of them, just that there are no actions associated yet, and these actions 
need to be added manually.

There is also a tool that generates the C code for this, so basically I can 
turn a CMSIS SVD definition into a complete QEMU device, partly functional 
(without actions).

I plan to further improve this mechanism, but it'll probably take some time.


Regards,

Liviu