Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 7

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 02/07/2012 10:41 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 07.02.2012 16:21, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>> BTW, I would like to change /i440fx to /devices/i440fx, so that we will
>> have clean namespaces:
>>
>> /block
>>      ...
>> /chardev
>>      ...
>> /clocks
>>      ...
>> /devices
>>      /peripheral
>>          ...                 # named devices created with -device
>>      /peripheral-anon
>>          /child[...]         # unnamed devices created with -device
>>      /default
>>          /child[...]         # created with qdev_create
>
> I don't like that, I prefer /i440fx over /devices/i440fx. I don't mind
> the other root-level nodes though.

Let's try Paolo's cleanup for now.  I am worried about proliferation of things 
in the root hierarchy and the nice advantage of having /devices is that we can 
work towards making our build infrastructure roughly match our hierarchy.

Since 1.1 is unstable for QOM, we can always change it later.

>
> For PC-style machines I'd expect board-level stuff like the CPUs to
> appear directly under /. That would roughly correspond to the
> OpenFirmware device tree then.

I think devices trees are a bad example that should not be emulated.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori