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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Object instantiation vs. device realization: what
 to do when?
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_F=c3=a4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>

On 14/02/2019 17.33, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 16:21, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> One of qdev's perennial sources of confusion is what to do at object
>> instantiation time, i.e. in TypeInfo::instance_init(), and what to do at
>> device realization time, i.e. in DeviceClass::realize().
> 
> Thanks for opening this topic. It's been on my todo list for a
> long time to try to figure out what the answer is...

I also got no proper answers here, but FWIW, I wrote down some things I
noticed last year here:

 http://people.redhat.com/~thuth/blog/qemu/2018/09/10/instance-init-realize.html

  Thomas