From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Feb 8 Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:12:41 -0600 Message-ID: <4D51B1C9.3080507@codemonkey.ws> References: <20110208155557.GM6198@x200.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Chris Wright , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Markus Armbruster Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:57990 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752013Ab1BHVMq (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:12:46 -0500 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so6489341wwa.1 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:12:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/08/2011 11:13 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Chris Wright writes: > > [...] > >> - qdev/vmstate both examples of partially completed work that need more >> attention >> > As far as qdev's concerned, I can see two kinds of to-dos: > > * Further develop qdev so that more of the machine init code can becomes > qdev declarations. Specific ideas welcome. Patches even more, as > always. > I think we need to improve the i440fx modelling as a lot of the stuff done in the machine init for pc really belongs as part of the i440fx. In theory, creating an i440fx ought to be essentially equivalent to the machine init function today. > * Convert the remaining devices. They are typically used only with > oddball machines, which makes the conversion hard to test for anyone > who's not already using them. > > I've said this before: at some point in time (sooner rather than > later, if you ask me), we need to shoot the stragglers. I'm pretty > optimistic that any victims worth keeping will receive timely > attention then. > > Anything else? > We need to unify the property model. We have QemuOpts, qdev properties, and QObject which basically reinvents variant typing three different ways. Regards, Anthony Liguori