Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] refactor PC machine, i440fx and piix3 to take advantage of QOM

[Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 01:36:09PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>This series aggressively refactors the PC machine initialization to be more
>modelled and less ad-hoc.  The highlights of this series are:
>
>1) Things like -m and -bios-name are now device model properties
>
>2) The i440fx and piix3 are now modelled in a thorough fashion
>
>3) i440fx_init is trivialized to creating devices and setting properties
>
>4) convert PCI host bridge to QOM
>
>The point (3) is the most important one.  As we refactor in this fashion,
>we should quickly get to the point where machine->init disappears completely in
>favor of just creating a handful of devices.
>
>The two stage initialization of QOM is important here.  instance_init() is when
>composed devices are created which means that after you've created a device, all
>of its children are visible in the device model.  This lets you set properties
>of the parent and its children.
>
>realize() (which is still called DeviceState::init today) will be called right
>before the guest starts up for the first time.
>

Hi Anthony,

What's the state of these two patchsets, are they ready to be merged? 

Regards,
Wanpeng Li 

>Changes in v5:
>* fix bisect issues
>* take advantage of Andreas's pci_host patchset
>* drop convert MemoryRegion to QOM 
>* drop prepare to create HPET, RTC and i8254 through composition
>
>Changes in v4:
>
>*rebase patchset
>
>Changes in v3:
>
>* fix coding style issues
>* fix rebase error
>* add changes log
>
>Changes in v2:
>
>* Rebase patch series of i440fx in Anthony's qom-rebase.12 branch to upstream
>* convert MemoryRegion to QOM
>* convert pci_host to QOM
>
>Anthony Liguori (3):
>  eliminate piix_pci.c and module i440fx and piix3
>  merge pc_piix.c to pc.c
>  convert pci-host to QOM
>
> hw/i386/Makefile.objs |    3 +-
> hw/i440fx.c           |  434 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> hw/i440fx.h           |   76 +++++
> hw/pc.c               |  753 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> hw/pc.h               |   41 +---
> hw/pc_piix.c          |  716 ----------------------------------------------
> hw/pci_host.c         |    9 +
> hw/piix3.c            |  258 +++++++++++++++++
> hw/piix3.h            |   73 +++++
> hw/piix_pci.c         |  622 ----------------------------------------
> 10 files changed, 1558 insertions(+), 1427 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 hw/i440fx.c
> create mode 100644 hw/i440fx.h
> delete mode 100644 hw/pc_piix.c
> create mode 100644 hw/piix3.c
> create mode 100644 hw/piix3.h
> delete mode 100644 hw/piix_pci.c
>
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