Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/19] openpic: convert to qdev

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 12/11/2012 02:25:31 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11.12.2012, at 00:47, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:
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> > On 12/08/2012 07:44:37 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> This patch converts the OpenPIC device to qdev. Along the way it
> >> renames the "openpic" target to "raven" and the "mpic" target to
> >> "mpc8544", to better reflect the actual models they implement.
> >> This way we have a generic OpenPIC device now that can handle
> >> different flavors of the OpenPIC specification.
> >
> > I'd rather not see the expansion of "mpc8544" hardcoding,  
> especially since it's not really modelling an MPIC as found in an  
> mpc8544, but rather half-implementing a generic Freescale MPIC.
> 
> That's what we've been doing wrong all the time now. We shouldn't  
> implement a half-generic fsl mpic, because we will never get to a  
> point where we're accurate enough or flexible enough for both  
> definitions.

What do you mean by "both"?  AFAICT we'll always have a half-generic  
MPIC because we'll probably never get it looking 100% like any  
particular chip.

> If we want a pv style generic mpic (for -M e500), let's add such an  
> mpic to the model list and make that one be really generic. But the  
> MPIC in -M mpc8544ds should behave exactly like an mpc8544 mpic.  
> Whenever we fail to do so, we better fix the emulation to be accurate  
> ;)

What behaviors would "mpc8544" specify that "fsl mpic v2.0" would not?

-Scott