From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yct21-0000li-Df for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 06:04:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yct20-00044L-MO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 06:04:25 -0400 Message-ID: <551A70DE.1030508@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:03:10 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <87pp7pa3sa.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <87pp7pa3sa.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Are "info pic" and "info irq" still of any use? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Mark Cave-Ayland , Alexander Graf , Michael Walle , qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, David Gibson , Leon Alrae , Aurelien Jarno , Richard Henderson On 31/03/2015 11:56, Markus Armbruster wrote: > These commands look like bit-rotted development aids to me. > > They're limited to just a few interrupt controllers. For the most > common machine types and accelerators, they do nothing. > > They complicate David Gibson's work on disentangling dependencies on > ISA. > > I'm cc'ing the maintainers of all machines that can be configured in a > way that makes these commands do something. Please speak up if you > think they provide value. For x86, they can be removed. However, it would be nice to provide access to the same information via QOM, especially for "info pic". This is the old QIDL project. Paolo