Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH 05/18] armv7m: expand NVIC state

[Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com>]

On 11/17/2015 01:10 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 9 November 2015 at 01:11, Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Expand the NVIC to fully support -M priorities and masking.
>> Doesn't use GIC code.
>>
>> Move some state to ARMCPU to allow calculation of exception masking.
>>
>> Add storage for PRIGROUP to configure group/sub-group split.
>> Track group and sub-group in separate fields for quick comparison.
>> Mix in vector # with sub-group as per tie breaking rules.
>>
>> NVIC now derives directly from SysBusDevice, and
>> struct NVICClass is eliminated.
>>
>> Also add DPRINTF() macro.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com>
> 
> This patch doesn't compile, because you've removed the definition of
> NVICClass, NVIC_CLASS, etc, but not their uses. A patchset needs to
> compile after every patch in it, not just at the end when all patches
> are applied. You'll need to rearrange your changes between patches
> a bit.

In the next rev. I've rearranged things so that each patches compiles.  At least according to 'git rebase -i -x make', so not a full rebuilt.

This does mean that the big block of changes to the NVIC are now almost entirely in one patch as I couldn't see how to split them up given that the nvic_state structure is changed so much.