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

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/09/2011 06:48 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> > ISASerialState dev;
> >
> > isa_serial_init(&dev, 0, 0x274, 0x07, NULL, NULL);
> >      
> Do you mean that there should be a generic way of doing that, like
> sysbus_create_varargs() for qdev, or just add inline functions which
> hide qdev property setup?
>
> I still think that FDT should be used in the future. That would
> require that the properties can be set up mechanically, and I don't
> see how your proposal would help that.
>    

Yeah, I don't think that is a good idea anymore.  I think this is part 
of why we're having so many problems with qdev.

While (most?) hardware hierarchies can be represented by device tree 
syntax, not all valid device trees correspond to interface and/or useful 
hardware hierarchies.

We want to have an interface to create large chunks of hardware (like an 
i440fx) which then results in a significant portion of a device tree.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori