From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: "Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rtc: initialize irq even if caller doesn't use rtc_init() function
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:06:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1D4D3C.8010708@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F1D4BEB.3040904@reactos.org>
On 2012-01-23 13:00, Hervé Poussineau wrote:
> Jan Kiszka a écrit :
>> On 2012-01-23 10:18, Hervé Poussineau wrote:
>>> rtc instanciated with -device has now a working irq line
>>
>> That makes no sense. The mc146818rtc is no_user - for a reason.
>>
>> What is the use case you are trying to address?
>>
>
> I wanted to be able to instanciate it with isa_create_simple(isa_bus,
> "mc146818rtc") in machine init code.
Why?
> I don't see any good reason why a rtc created this way can't work.
You will still need to set the base year then, manually. And your
machine has no legacy RTC replacement logic like the PC?
I just don't get the benefit.
Jan
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-23 9:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rtc: initialize irq even if caller doesn't use rtc_init() function Hervé Poussineau
2012-01-23 11:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-23 12:00 ` Hervé Poussineau
2012-01-23 12:06 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
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