From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-rng
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:45:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B011F38.9070500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AFB2D4D.8050208@collabora.co.uk>
Hi,
> in qdev_init_chardev() the return value is picked based upon the name of
> the device. For now, I've added a third 'if clause' to match for my
> driver and pass through the CharDriverState * fron vl.c for my rng
> driver, however I'd like to solve this properly.
Ignore qdev_init_chardev() ...
> I think a simple name->pointer type matching system would work fine,
> however I'd like to know if anyone else has sorted this yet, or if I
> should be doing things differently altogether.
Use a chardev property (look at serial.c, "isa-serial" device).
Then you'll configure it on the qemu command line like this:
-chardev $backend,id=some-name-here,more-chardev-parameters
-device virtio-rng,chardev=some-name-here
HTH,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-16 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 21:31 [Qemu-devel] virtio-rng Ian Molton
2009-11-11 22:57 ` Paul Brook
2009-11-16 9:45 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2009-11-16 12:28 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-16 13:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-16 17:58 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-16 22:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-16 23:16 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-16 23:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-17 9:18 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-17 9:24 ` Amit Shah
[not found] ` <4B02705A.5060400@collabora.co.uk>
[not found] ` <20091117095456.GA11125@amit-x200.redhat.com>
[not found] ` <4B0278B0.1080505@collabora.co.uk>
[not found] ` <20091117102837.GA11493@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-11-17 11:10 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-17 11:25 ` Amit Shah
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