From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59065) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwcLK-0003Ot-ES for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:59:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwcLJ-0003gH-JO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:59:46 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com ([209.85.216.173]:58029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwcLJ-0003gD-H9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:59:45 -0400 Received: by qyk31 with SMTP id 31so3900435qyk.4 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <4E567169.2060302@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:59:37 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1314254480-22438-1-git-send-email-peter.crosthwaite@petalogix.com> <4E564DBC.8030801@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V1 00/14] Dynamic machine model creation from device trees List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Crosthwaite Cc: stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, michal.simek@petalogix.com, edgar.iglesias@gmail.com, john.williams@petalogix.com On 08/25/2011 05:43 PM, Peter Crosthwaite wrote: > > Now my understanding is the part of the qdev philosophy is to not embed > connection information in device models themselves? This is going to change sooner or later, the GPIO connections in qdev _are_ embedded connections and extending qdev requires making those connections more ubiquitous and less of a special case than they are now. Anthony's QOM work will let people describe those connections in configuration files or similar. Paolo