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Subject: What to do about non-qdevified devices? (was: KVM call
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:02:03 +0100
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Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> writes:

[...]
> The problems I ran into were (1) this is a lot of work (2) it basically
> requires that all bus children have been qdev/QOM-ified.  Even with
> something like the ISA bus which is where I started, quite a few devices
> were not qdevified still.

So what's the plan to complete the qdevification job?  Lay really low
and quietly hope the problem goes away?  We've tried that for about
three years, doesn't seem to work.

[...]