From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Memory API: handling unassigned physical memory
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 20:03:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA8eH_LpWxzVosxPHPVcWUneOm93C3UyS=qOZh18kVqwJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA03216.3010100@ilande.co.uk>
On 1 May 2012 19:57, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> On 01/05/12 16:20, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>>> Correctness is more important to me than brevity.
>>>
>>> And really, we should focus on killing things like i8259_init().
>>
>>
>> Functions like i8259_init() exist precisely because
>> QOM/qdev don't provide brevity and people trying to
>> use these devices do in fact value brevity. That's why
>> I want the standard native "connect this thing to this
>> other thing" function to be short and simple.
>
>
> My understanding was that the *_init() functions were legacy and shouldn't
> be used any more - at least I've started removing them and replacing them
> with the slighty more long-winded QOM versions in my working tree.
Yes, that is my opinion and is why I'm arguing with Anthony here...
-- PMM
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2012-05-01 6:57 ` [Qemu-devel] Memory API: handling unassigned physical memory Blue Swirl
2012-05-01 13:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 18:48 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2012-05-02 15:15 ` Bob Breuer
2012-05-06 8:45 ` Blue Swirl
2012-05-06 8:41 ` Blue Swirl
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2012-05-01 7:10 ` Blue Swirl
2012-05-01 18:50 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2012-05-01 21:21 ` Andreas Färber
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2012-05-01 12:39 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-01 12:41 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-01 12:42 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-01 12:43 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-01 12:48 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-01 12:49 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-01 13:01 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-01 13:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 14:00 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-01 14:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 14:20 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-01 15:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 15:20 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-01 15:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 15:37 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-01 17:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 18:57 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2012-05-01 19:03 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2012-05-01 14:09 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-01 14:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 14:26 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-01 15:13 ` Anthony Liguori
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2012-05-01 12:41 ` Avi Kivity
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2012-05-01 12:46 ` Avi Kivity
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