From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tukds-0003lv-AK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:04:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tukdg-0005TW-SJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:04:00 -0500 From: Markus Armbruster References: <1358121304-21345-1-git-send-email-afaerber@suse.de> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:47:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1358121304-21345-1-git-send-email-afaerber@suse.de> ("Andreas =?utf-8?Q?F=C3=A4rber=22's?= message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:54:54 +0100") Message-ID: <87a9sc2aoh.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC ppc-next v3 00/10] target-ppc: MacIO QOM'ification List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?F=C3=A4rber?= Cc: Kevin Wolf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de, Blue Swirl , =?utf-8?Q?Herv?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9?= Poussineau , qemu-ppc@nongnu.org Andreas F=C3=A4rber writes: > Hello, > > As requested by Markus, here's a conversion of MacIO IDE to QOM. > There's more work to be done, but in light of the approaching Soft Freeze > here's my current state of affairs, lightly tested. > > Patch 1 is a generic QOM API fix and could be applied independent of the > ppc device conversion. > > Patch 2 goes on to move PowerMac machines to hw/ppc/ as discussed with Al= ex. > The intent would be to do the same for PReP once applied. > > The remainder revives an old patch from the time of QOM introduction to s= plit > MacIO in two, allowing to move more logic into the device from the machin= e. > This time it adopts new QOM concepts for embedding the sub-devices conver= ted > in the following patches. TODO: finalization support / object_unref(). > > ADB is still being worked on. DBDMA still TODO (but then again so is x86 = DMA). > ESCC would affect sparc as well. > The PICs pose cyclic dependency issues (mapped inside MacIO but MacIO as a > PCIDevice needing a PCIBus, the Grackle/UniNorth PHBs needing a PIC IRQ). Looks like a useful step forward to me already, and I'm looking forward to patches you consider merge-worthy. Thanks!