Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 27/28] sysbus: apic: ioapic: convert to QEMU Object Model

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-01-24 21:21, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Also, I see a lot of programmatic initialization and a lot of repeating
>> patterns (specifically regarding trivial class initialization) - there
>> is no better alternative?
> 
> Not really, no.  It looks bad now because you have DeviceInfo still. 
> Once DeviceInfo goes away, all of the initialization will happen in the
> class_init function.
> 
> The design of QOM is such that a lot of what was previously done via
> declarative structures is now done imperatively.  But the code bloat
> that came in this patch series will decrease significantly with the next
> series as we eliminate DeviceInfo.

Are there examples of fully converted devices to get an impression?

Jan

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