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Re: [Qemu-devel] steps towards deprecation of old boards and devices
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] steps towards deprecation of old boards and devices |
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Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:48:02 +0200 |
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On 20/09/2016 13:04, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> I'm not proposing to get rid of -serial. I'm proposing to use it as
> indicator of old code in need of modernization. A properly QOMified
> serial device should be "configurable with non-legacy means". Devices
> that aren't are probably not QOMified. [...]
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> > The Raspberry Pi board is probably one of the best examples. Its only
> > snag is that one of the devices (hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.c) uses
> > serial_hds[].
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> Yes, but it uses it to configure QOMified devices, doesn't it?
> It should be possible to configure these with non-legacy means, at least
> in theory.
The devices are QOMified, but because there is more than one you cannot
hack their configuration with -global.
Paolo