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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: aik@ozlabs.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,
	mdroth@us.ibm.com, amit.shah@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 8/8] pseries: Export RTC time via QOM
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:14:56 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141223031456.GB4576@voom.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5498B6D2.5040406@suse.de>

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On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 01:26:58AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23.12.14 01:17, David Gibson wrote:
> > On x86, the guest's RTC can be read with QMP, either from the RTC device's
> > "date" property or via the "rtc-time" property on the machine (which is an
> > alias to the former).  This is set up in the mc146818rtc driver, and
> > doesn't work on other targets.
> > 
> > This patch adds a similar "date" property to the pseries machine's RTAS RTC
> > and adds a compatible alias to the machine.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> 
> Very nice, can we somehow get rid of an exported spapr_rtc_read() with
> this as well?

Uhhh.. we could, but I really don't like the idea.

It seems perverse to encode the current time into JSON, just so we can
decode it into a struct tm again in the events code.

-- 
David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
				| _way_ _around_!
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-23  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-23  0:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 0/8] pseries: Fix and extend PAPR RTC implementation David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 1/8] pseries: Move sPAPR RTC code into its own file David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 2/8] pseries: Add more parameter validation in RTAS time of day functions David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 3/8] pseries: Add spapr_rtc_read() helper function David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 4/8] Generalize QOM publishing of date and time from mc146818rtc.c David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 5/8] pseries: Make RTAS time of day functions respect -rtc options David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 6/8] pseries: Make the PAPR RTC a qdev device David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 7/8] pseries: Move rtc_offset into RTC device's state structure David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:30   ` Alexander Graf
2014-12-23  3:56     ` David Gibson
2014-12-23  6:41       ` Alexander Graf
2015-01-28  5:31         ` David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 8/8] pseries: Export RTC time via QOM David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:26   ` Alexander Graf
2014-12-23  3:14     ` David Gibson [this message]
2014-12-23  6:33       ` Alexander Graf
2015-01-28  5:28         ` David Gibson
2014-12-23  0:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 0/8] pseries: Fix and extend PAPR RTC implementation Alexander Graf

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