Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 02/18] pc: create PC object on pc_init1()

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 03/10/2012 16:53, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto:
>> > 
>> > Can you add a hook to QEMUMachine so that this object is created by
>> > qdev_get_machine() and ends up at /machine?
> Oh, I didn't know there was an existing "machine" object already, I
> didn't know qdev_get_machine().
> 
> Shouldn't /machine be a child of the "container" class?

It should, but note that "container" is really just the same as
TYPE_OBJECT.  It is only for clarity that a difference class is used.
So using TYPE_DEVICE for now is not too bad.

Paolo

> That leads to
> the other question you asked in another message: in this case, PC
> wouldn't be a child of DeviceState, and we would need an additional
> mechanism to allow non-DeviceState objects to use global properties.
> 
> (The sole reason I introduced the PC class was to allow the PC code to
> use the compatibility "contiguous_apic_ids" global property.)