Re: [Qemu-devel] What to do about non-qdevified devices?

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:

> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>
>> On 30 January 2013 07:02, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Do we have a list of not-yet-qdevified devices? Maybe we need to
>> start saying "fix X Y and Z or platform P is dropped from the next
>> release". (This would of course be easier if we had a way to let users
>> know that platform P was in danger...)
>
> I think that's a good idea.  Only problem is identifying pre-qdev
> devices in the code requires code inspection (grep won't do, I'm
> afraid).
>
> If we agree on a "qdevify or else" plan, I'd be prepared to help with
> the digging up of devices.

That's a nice thought, but we're not going to rip out dma.c and break
every PC target.

But I will help put together a list of devices that need converting.  I
have patches actually for most of the PC devices.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori