From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc53B-0001Ag-J9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:32:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc4zi-0004QH-B2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:28:41 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f45.google.com ([209.85.214.45]:43509) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc4zi-0004Mv-4O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:25:06 -0400 Received: by bkwj10 with SMTP id j10so5789530bkw.4 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:25:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4FCE9B88.2080908@us.ibm.com> References: <1338858018-17189-1-git-send-email-mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1338858018-17189-2-git-send-email-mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4FCDDA12.4040907@redhat.com> <4FCE9B88.2080908@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:25:03 +0100 Message-ID: From: Peter Maydell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/17] qidl: add QEMU IDL processor List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: yamahata@valinux.co.jp, quintela@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Michael Roth , owasserm@redhat.com, Avi Kivity , pbonzini@redhat.com, akong@redhat.com, afaerber@suse.de On 6 June 2012 00:51, Anthony Liguori wrote: > In the case of a CharDriverState, the reference is always immutable. =C2= =A0If we > supported changing char backends dynamically, it would not happen by > changing the reference, but almost certainly by having the ability to reo= pen > the char driver in place. Incidentally, we may not support it but we do it anyway; see hw/omap_uart.c omap_uart_attach()... (That's a nasty hack which it would be good to clean up somehow.) -- PMM