From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "James Hogan" <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
"Stefan Weil" <sw@weilnetz.de>,
"Peter Jovanovic" <petar.jovanovic@imgtec.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6] mips_malta: do not raise exceptions when accessing invalid memory
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:15:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130813211504.GI22508@hall.aurel32.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9NciYNNPuzN1272GbtGN_Ca6dXrwaiNEf2v-EWjVLTmQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:45:28PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 13 August 2013 21:23, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> > It's great that people improve QEMU by providing new APIs allowing more
> > things. That said it's a real pitty that people providing a new API do
> > not (always) convert devices to the new API, as they are the one really
> > knowing and understanding it. Now I'll have to spend time on that
> > instead of doing things actually useful.
>
> Andreas has actually been putting in a lot of work converting
> and updating various devices to new APIs. However we have a lot of
> devices, and with only a few people doing conversions it takes a
> while to cover everything.
I agree that Andreas is taking time to update the various devices,
thanks. That said he's not the one who has introduced this new API, and
that should not be a justification for removing the Malta board or even
the MIPS target from QEMU.
--
Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-13 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-12 19:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6] mips_malta: do not raise exceptions when accessing invalid memory Aurelien Jarno
2013-08-12 20:38 ` Stefan Weil
2013-08-12 21:18 ` Aurelien Jarno
2013-08-13 10:05 ` James Hogan
2013-08-13 12:32 ` Andreas Färber
2013-08-13 20:23 ` Aurelien Jarno
2013-08-13 20:45 ` Peter Maydell
2013-08-13 21:15 ` Aurelien Jarno [this message]
2013-08-13 21:20 ` Peter Maydell
2013-08-13 21:26 ` Aurelien Jarno
2013-08-14 5:18 ` [Qemu-devel] Free BIOS for MIPS Malta (was: mips_malta: do not raise exceptions when accessing invalid memory) Stefan Weil
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