From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
qemu-riscv@nongnu.org, qemu-arm@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Purpose of QOM properties registered at realize time?
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 14:04:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6e652d9-548f-4d4e-e451-48e3f5e11031@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201006220647.GR7303@habkost.net>
On 07/10/20 00:06, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While trying to understand how QOM properties are used in QEMU, I
> stumbled upon multiple cases where alias properties are added at
> realize time.
>
> Now, I don't understand why those properties exist. As the
> properties are added at realize time, I assume they aren't
> supposed to be touched by the user at all. If they are not
> supposed to be touched by the user, what exactly is the purpose
> of those QOM properties?
In the case of GPIOs, I think they will be used by other devices that
are added afterwards.
The remaining ones are:
> hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c=232=static void allwinner_h3_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c:359: object_property_add_alias(OBJECT(s), "sd-bus", OBJECT(&s->mmc0),
> --
> hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.c=128=static void bcm2835_peripherals_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.c:322: object_property_add_alias(OBJECT(s), "sd-bus", OBJECT(&s->gpio), "sd-bus");
> --
> hw/arm/bcm2836.c=69=static void bcm2836_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> hw/arm/bcm2836.c:87: object_property_add_alias(OBJECT(s), "sd-bus", OBJECT(&s->peripherals),
> --
> hw/arm/xlnx-zynqmp.c=276=static void xlnx_zynqmp_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> hw/arm/xlnx-zynqmp.c:522: object_property_add_alias(OBJECT(s), bus_name, sdhci, "sd-bus");
And this are probably usable with "bus=sd-bus" or something like that on
other devices, too.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-07 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-06 22:06 Purpose of QOM properties registered at realize time? Eduardo Habkost
2020-10-07 10:35 ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-07 12:04 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-10-07 13:02 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-10-07 13:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-07 14:27 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-10-07 14:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-07 15:51 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-10-07 15:58 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-07 14:28 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-07 15:48 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-10-08 9:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-10-08 10:00 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-08 15:15 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-10-08 15:41 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-12 10:30 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
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