Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On 30 January 2013 07:02, Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>> [...] >>>> The problems I ran into were (1) this is a lot of work (2) it basically >>>> requires that all bus children have been qdev/QOM-ified. Even with >>>> something like the ISA bus which is where I started, quite a few devices >>>> were not qdevified still. >>> >>> So what's the plan to complete the qdevification job? Lay really low >>> and quietly hope the problem goes away? We've tried that for about >>> three years, doesn't seem to work. >> >> Do we have a list of not-yet-qdevified devices? Maybe we need to >> start saying "fix X Y and Z or platform P is dropped from the next >> release". (This would of course be easier if we had a way to let users >> know that platform P was in danger...) > > I think that's a good idea. Only problem is identifying pre-qdev > devices in the code requires code inspection (grep won't do, I'm > afraid). > > If we agree on a "qdevify or else" plan, I'd be prepared to help with > the digging up of devices. That's a nice thought, but we're not going to rip out dma.c and break every PC target. But I will help put together a list of devices that need converting. I have patches actually for most of the PC devices. Regards, Anthony Liguori -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
