From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] steps towards deprecation of old boards and devices
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:48:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d56004d2-b0d8-c5d9-286f-90265b2055d1@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgymsugw.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
On 20/09/2016 13:04, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> I'm not proposing to get rid of -serial. I'm proposing to use it as
> indicator of old code in need of modernization. A properly QOMified
> serial device should be "configurable with non-legacy means". Devices
> that aren't are probably not QOMified. [...]
>
> > The Raspberry Pi board is probably one of the best examples. Its only
> > snag is that one of the devices (hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.c) uses
> > serial_hds[].
>
> Yes, but it uses it to configure QOMified devices, doesn't it?
> It should be possible to configure these with non-legacy means, at least
> in theory.
The devices are QOMified, but because there is more than one you cannot
hack their configuration with -global.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-20 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-13 17:09 [Qemu-devel] steps towards deprecation of old boards and devices Peter Maydell
2016-09-20 8:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-09-20 8:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-20 11:04 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-09-20 11:48 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-09-20 13:53 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-09-20 11:44 ` Andreas Färber
2016-09-20 13:50 ` Markus Armbruster
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