Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 7/9] hw/misc/zynq_slcr: add clock generation for uarts

[Peter Maydell]

On 12 October 2018 at 14:24, Damien Hedde <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm wondering if in such a case (a fixed frequency base clock), we
> should have a way to change the frequency through command line ? (In
> order to start the machine with, for example, a 50MHz base clock).
> But I don't know what's the right way to do it and if it needs some kind
> of special support in the clock object or in the machine object, like a
> frequency property.

New command line arguments are a complexity you don't want to get in to.
Just have the board model the frequency at whatever it typically is.
It seems vanishingly rare that a user would really care to model the
board frequency as something different.

thanks
-- PMM