Re: [PULL 25/33] tests/acceptance: Add a test for the N800 and N810 arm machines

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 20:04, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:39:16 +0200
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
> > Are you saying arm_boot_info should hold a pointer to MachineState*
> > instead of duplicating?
>
> yep, some parts of it (fdt related) already use MachineState* so it's
> complete rewrite. The same probably applies to the fields you've just
> quoted.

Hmm, maybe, maybe not. The original design idea here was that
the boot loader code took a structure defining only the things
that the bootloader needed to know. It doesn't really need to
know about all the stuff that's in MachineState, which is
the state structure for the machine.

thanks
-- PMM