Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Make pointer to fw_cfg device global.

[Peter Maydell]

On 20 May 2012 10:02, Gleb Natapov <address@hidden> wrote:
> There can be only one fw_cfg device, so saving global reference to it
> removes the need to pass its pointer around.

This seems like a backwards step to me: one of the things that prevents
us supporting "two separate machines in one emulation" is that we have
various things that assume there's only one instance of themselves and
use globals. I don't think we should be adding any more...

-- PMM