Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/10] qdev patches.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > This is exactly the sort of fake conversion that I don't like, because
> > you
> > still require use of the old hardcoded initialization functions.
>
> I'd prefer to call them "incomplete" instead of "fake". I know that more
> work needs to be done to get the drivers into shape for a dt-driven
> machine creation.

To followup with some more backgroud on that on that:  These are cases 
where additional arguments are passed to the *_init() function.

Partly the reason is irq windup (i.e. passing around qemu_irqs), which 
must be adapted.  Didn't investigate that one yet.  Probably non-trivial 
to the way interrupts work (pic, lapic, ioapic, ...) in PCs.

Partly the arguments carry extra configutation info.  In that case the 
info should probably come as attributes from the the device tree. 
Didn't look (yet) into using attributes, one of the reasons being that 
the API for them is still quite unclear.

cheers,
  Gerd