Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] pci: add pci test device

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 04:08:45PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 03/04/2013 16:06, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> > > Ok, I'll add hw/pci/bridge, and remove the "host-" prefix for host PCI
> > > devices.
> >
> > That's too much nesting I think. hw/bridge/ and we can put isa bridges there
> > as well then.
> 
> You need to group similar devices for the nesting to be useful.  For
> example, it should be easy to check if something is true of all ISA
> bridges, or to do the same change in all of them.  ISA and PCI bridges
> have too little in common for that (and why not put I2C and SPI in
> hw/bridge too :)).
> 
> Paolo

At some level it might make sense to have pci/ and isa/
with core code at the top level. Specific
devices would go into hw/pci/ hw/isa/ ...
But will this conflict with how libhw works at the moment?
We don't want to rebuild pci for each target ...