From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sysbus: add no_user for devices using mmio or IRQ or GPIO
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:58:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5135CFE7.7040506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9QU6D3JE7duK4WjHraUm8qWqdjL-W_XEqpkwepeE2FBA@mail.gmail.com>
Il 05/03/2013 00:22, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> Yes, the right thing to do would be to QOMify memory regions and
>> introduce pins, but that's a bit more than the amount of time I have now
>> for this.
>
> ...plus it means that when we do have these things we
> have to go round and identify the cases where no_user
> was set only because we didn't have the features before.
Yes, that's why my patch includes a comment to this end.
> My attitude here really is "yes, it's not great but it's
> been like this forever and we don't seem to have had a
> huge flood of user complaints, so better not to mess
> with it unless what you're doing is going to amount to
> some kind of cleanup".
I did find a complaint from a Red Hat tester about having the sysbus
EHCI device in the help. I guess an alternative fix will be to move
those device to a separate CONFIG_ symbol.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-05 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-04 17:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sysbus: add no_user for devices using mmio or IRQ or GPIO Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-04 17:58 ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-04 20:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-04 23:22 ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-05 10:58 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-03-05 11:25 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-03-07 8:48 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-07 10:00 ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-07 12:36 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-07 16:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-03-07 16:22 ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-07 17:07 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-07 17:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-03-07 17:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-07 12:45 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2013-03-07 15:41 ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-07 23:37 ` Peter Crosthwaite
2013-03-07 23:53 ` Peter Maydell
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