From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: marcandre.lureau@redhat.com, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] tpm_spapr: Support TPM for ppc64 using CRQ based interface
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:59:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <db0d3dbe-3b01-e62b-2cf0-3d0c50e3c4fb@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191219015414.GC2321@umbus.fritz.box>
On 12/18/19 8:54 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 02:44:04PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> On 12/16/19 7:29 PM, David Gibson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Since you need to change compatible based on an internal variable,
>>> we'd need to replace the static dt_compatible in the class with a
>>> callback.
>>
>> Why can we not initialize it once we know the version of TPM? From the
>> perspective of SLOF at least this seems to be building the device tree fine
>> since it sees the proper value...
> Because it's a serious layering / isolation violation. You're
> modifying QOM type information from the runtime code of a specific
> instance. You get away with it (now) because there's only one
> instance and the ordering of things happens to let it work, but that's
> assuming way too much about QOM's implementation details.
>
> As a rule, once the QOM classes are set up with their class_init
> function, they should never be modified.
If we now add a get_dt_compatible() callback to the class that gets
invoked when dt_compatible is NULL, does this then solve the issue?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-19 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-12 20:24 [PATCH v5 0/5] Add vTPM emulator support for ppc64 platform Stefan Berger
2019-12-12 20:24 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] tpm_spapr: Support TPM for ppc64 using CRQ based interface Stefan Berger
2019-12-12 20:33 ` Eric Blake
2019-12-12 20:34 ` Stefan Berger
2019-12-13 5:34 ` David Gibson
2019-12-13 13:03 ` Stefan Berger
2019-12-17 0:29 ` David Gibson
2019-12-17 19:44 ` Stefan Berger
2019-12-19 1:54 ` David Gibson
2019-12-19 1:59 ` Stefan Berger [this message]
2019-12-19 5:13 ` David Gibson
2019-12-19 5:14 ` David Gibson
2019-12-12 20:24 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] tpm: Return bool from tpm_backend_finish_sync Stefan Berger
2019-12-12 20:24 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] tpm_spapr: Support suspend and resume Stefan Berger
2019-12-13 5:39 ` David Gibson
2019-12-13 12:46 ` Stefan Berger
2019-12-17 0:53 ` David Gibson
2019-12-12 20:24 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] hw/ppc/Kconfig: Enable TPM_SPAPR as part of PSERIES config Stefan Berger
2019-12-12 20:24 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] docs: tpm: Add example command line for ppc64 and tpm-spapr Stefan Berger
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