code as possible and to bring both device models to feature parity such that
perhaps PIIX4 can become a drop-in-replacement for PIIX3 in the pc machine. This
could resolve the "Frankenstein" PIIX4-PM problem in PIIX3 discussed on this
list before.
The series is structured as follows: First, PIIX3 is changed to instantiate
internal devices itself, like PIIX4 does already. Second, PIIX3 gets prepared
for the merge with PIIX4 which includes some fixes, cleanups, and renamings.
Third, the same is done for PIIX4. In step four the implementations are merged.
Since some consolidations could be done easier with merged implementations, the
consolidation continues in step five which concludes the series.
One particular challenge in this series was that the PIC of PIIX3 used to be
instantiated outside of the south bridge while some sub functions require a PIC
with populated qemu_irqs. This has been solved by introducing a proxy PIC which
furthermore allows PIIX3 to be agnostic towards the virtualization technology
used (KVM, TCG, Xen). Due to consolidation PIIX4 gained the proxy PIC as well.
Another challenge was dealing with optional devices where Peter already gave
advice in [1] which this series implements.
Last but not least there might be some opportunity to consolidate VM state
handling, probably by reusing the one from PIIX3. Since I'm not very familiar
with the requirements I didn't touch it so far.
v4:
- Rebase onto "[PATCH v2 0/3] Decouple INTx-to-LNKx routing from south bridges"
since it is already queued via mips-next. This eliminates patches
'hw/isa/piix3: Prefix pci_slot_get_pirq() with "piix3_"' and 'hw/isa/piix4:
Prefix pci_slot_get_pirq() with "piix4_"'.
- Squash 'hw/isa/piix: Drop the "3" from the PIIX base class' into
'hw/isa/piix3: Rename typedef PIIX3State to PIIXState'. I originally only
split these patches since I wasn't sure whether renaming a type was allowed.
- Add new patch 'hw/i386/pc_piix: Associate pci_map_irq_fn as soon as PCI bus is
created' for forther cleanup of INTx-to-LNKx route decoupling.