From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42479) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJ2RA-0001T8-3N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:59:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJ2R1-00052n-Jt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:59:48 -0500 Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <530F52C5.3080209@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:59:17 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1392904246-15575-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> <1392904246-15575-4-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> <530609F9.1060105@redhat.com> <530F14C2.2050808@suse.de> <530F1670.2070701@redhat.com> <1393511950.31381.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1393511950.31381.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 3/6] vl: allow customizing the class of /machine List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Marcel Apfelbaum Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf , =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= Il 27/02/2014 15:39, Marcel Apfelbaum ha scritto: >> > >> > Each of them highlights one of the two aspects that, in my opinion, make >> > QOM interesting (respectively, unification of interfaces and the >> > containment tree). > I was planning to tackle the replacement of the machine from a container > to an actual object too, however this patch conflicts with my > series because I already have a QOM Machine object created *always* > and this patch adds another object *sometimes*. > > Is this patch's functionality in use yet? Any idea how to merge those ideas? pseries simply wants to make /machine implement the FWPathProvider interface. As long as you have a way for boards to specify a TypeInfo for /machine, this patch will not get in the way. Paolo