Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC 0/14] implement power chip

[li guang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Hi, Anthony

Sorry to bother you,
can you please help to see it this work is
worth to go on, or ...

or someone else can help to see this patch-set.

Thanks All.


在 2013-03-13三的 16:01 +0800，liguang写道：
> By now, all devices of QEMU do not have much more
> power management consideration, for example, if
> system do suspend, it will call all registered notifiers,
> this was loosely required, and the code to do power management
> state transition seems just do 'ugly emulation', rather than be
> conscious with whole system devices, same condition with reset(it
> has been embedded in DeviceClass, good!),
> shutdown, in real world, commonly all devices' power are controlled
> by a power chip, then all power sequence can be done just
> issue commands to this chip.
> so, I come across an idea to implement qdev'ed power device, and
> make all qdev struct of devices aware of self power management(add
> on/off/wakeup/suspend ... filed for DeviceClass), this will
> bring tidy power management, and the emulation will more like what
> happened in real world.
> 
> Of course, it's only a patch-set for RFC, I'd like to ask all 
> developers to help correct this idea, if it's worth to implement, 
> I'll go head to refactor more.
> 
> Li Guang (14)
> 	 gitignore: ignore more files
> 	 qdev: add power management method
> 	 qdev: remove redundant abort()
> 	 qdev: add power on/off/suspend/wakeup handler
> 	 power: add power chip emulation
> 	 sysemu: remove PowerReason in sysemu.h
> 	 acpi: refactor acpi wakeup function
> 	 ich9: make lpc's reset also do pm_reset
> 	 ich9: do lpc's power on by reset function
> 	 piix4: refactor piix4's power callbacks
> 	 pckbd: refactor pckbd's power callbacks
> 	 ps2: call ps2_{kbd,mouse}_reset in kbd_reset
> 	 parallel: refactor parallel_reset function
> 	 uhci: refactor uhci's power callbacks
> 
> .gitignore              |   3 +++
> Makefile.objs           |   1 +
> hw/acpi.c               |  20 +++++++++-----------
> hw/acpi.h               |   3 ++-
> hw/acpi_ich9.c          |   4 ++--
> hw/ich9.h               |   1 +
> hw/lpc_ich9.c           |  12 ++++++++++-
> hw/parallel.c           |  10 ++++++----
> hw/pckbd.c              |  25 ++++++++++++----------
> hw/piix4.c              |  14 ++++++++++++--
> hw/ps2.c                |   8 ++++----
> hw/ps2.h                |   2 ++
> hw/qdev-core.h          |  15 ++++++
> hw/qdev.c               |  99 +--
> hw/usb/hcd-uhci.c       |  10 ++++++++++
> include/sysemu/sysemu.h |   7 +------
> power.c                 | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> power.h                 |  41 +++++++++++++++++
> 18 files changed, 365 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 power.c
>  create mode 100644 power.h
> 
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