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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] finishing the transition away from SysBus init
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 2018-09-27 10:11, Peter Maydell wrote:
> I had a look at how many devices are still using the SysBus init
> method (rather than the instance-init/realize pair), and it turns out
> to be only 41, which I think is reasonably tractable for doing some
> more conversions and completing this API transation.
[...]
> I'll probably have a look at some of the arm devices on the
> list at some point.
> 
> I would recommend that we do this by picking a handful
> of related devices (eg same board/target arch) and converting
> them, rather than trying to do the whole lot at once. We
> can gradually whittle down the number of remaining devices.

I think this is also a good candidate for
https://wiki.qemu.org/BiteSizedTasks ... if you agree, could you please
add an entry there (including a link to an example, if possible)?

 Thomas