Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/12] hw: move memory API to hw/core

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:18:52PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 11/04/2013 19:14, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> > On 11 April 2013 18:09, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Il 11/04/2013 18:28, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> >>> On 11 April 2013 17:10, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> >>> This doesn't look right. The MemoryRegion system isn't
> >>> hw-specific, it's a part of the basic QEMU emulation
> >>> system which provides functionality to hw/ and other
> >>> things (like cputlb.c).
> >>
> >> The accelerator- and target-independent parts of the basic emulation are
> >> already in hw/core (not much really, but consider that CPUs are device
> >> and depend on hw/core/qdev.c).  The memory API is simply the interface
> >> between the accelerators and hw/ (boards & device models).
> > 
> > Yes, so it should be provided in the place we put our accelerator
> > implementation (ie .): it is functionality and interface exposed
> > *to* the code in hw/, not functionality and interface provided
> > *by* hw/.
> 
> Ok, the historical practice was that qdev core was in hw/, and that's
> what I tried to follow.  It makes sense either way to me.
> 
> But then patch 11 also has to be dropped, otherwise it doesn't make
> sense.  Michael, what do you think?
> 
> Paolo

I agree.