Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Feb 8

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 8 February 2011 17:13, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> As far as qdev's concerned, I can see two kinds of to-dos:
>>
>> * Further develop qdev so that more of the machine init code can becomes
>>  qdev declarations.  Specific ideas welcome.  Patches even more, as
>>  always.
>>
>> * Convert the remaining devices.  They are typically used only with
>>  oddball machines, which makes the conversion hard to test for anyone
>>  who's not already using them.
>>
>>  I've said this before: at some point in time (sooner rather than
>>  later, if you ask me), we need to shoot the stragglers.  I'm pretty
>>  optimistic that any victims worth keeping will receive timely
>>  attention then.
>
> So on IRC pbrook wrote:
> <pbrook> So we have a bunch of devices that nominally claim to use the
> qdev infrastructure, but are still making assumptions that qdev was
> supposed to remove, so break horribly when you actually try to use it
> as intended.
>
> ...and my question is: where is the documentation on how to do
> a good conversion of a device to qdev, how it works, what the
> assumptions you can/can't make are, etc ? I can't see anything
> relevant in the source tree or on the website, but maybe I'm just
> looking in the wrong places...

Unfortunately, you're not.

Paul created qdev.  Others, including Gerd and myself, put it to use in
targets we care for, working from the examples Paul set and not much
else.  We had to grow it some along the way.  Still, the brain to pick
for what assumptions qdev was supposed to remove is Paul's.