Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 00/15] data-driven device registers

[Frederic Konrad]

On 08/01/2016 11:40, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 January 2016 at 00:39, Alistair Francis
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Alistair Francis
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 15 December 2015 at 20:52, Peter Crosthwaite
>>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> It needs to exist before it can be used so there is a bit of a chicken
>>>>> and egg problem there.
>> No one seems to be jumping at reviewing this. Can we just send a pull 
>> request?
> I don't necessarily require review [*]. I would like *somebody* other
> than you Xilinx folk to say "yes, I think I would use this for
> modelling devices". Otherwise all we have is "weird thing used
> only in two or three Xilinx devices and nowhere else", which I'm
> a bit reluctant to let into the tree. We already have a pretty
> wide divergence in how devices look just based on the various
> transitions from older to newer qdev/QOM/etc that are not complete.
>
> [*] by which I mean, I will review this series if you can find
> somebody else who's going to say they'd use it.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>

Hi Peter,

This is useful for us as well.
My point view is that it is an easy and clean way of implementing devices.
BTW we have the same mechanism to model devices in SystemC.

Thanks,
Fred