[Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC 0/5] Improve device info handling

[Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Current monitor assumes certain functions are always available.
Because of the shortcomings of the API, devices have to keep some kind
of global state available with static variables, which is ugly.

Add info command registration to the API and make some devices use it.

User visible monitor commands change: 'info' is replaced by 'dev_info'
and also the parameter name may change, for example 'pic' becomes
'i8259.state'.

I'm not too happy about this, maybe 'info' should also handle
registered devices.

Blue Swirl (5):
  monitor: add device info infrastructure
  x86/Sparc32: use device info for pic and irq
  PCI: use device info
  x86: use device info for hpet
  PPC: use device info for CPU statistics

 cpu-all.h               |    3 --
 hw/an5206.c             |    9 ------
 hw/arm_pic.c            |   10 ------
 hw/cris_pic_cpu.c       |    5 ---
 hw/i8259.c              |   41 ++++++++++++++------------
 hw/microblaze_pic_cpu.c |    5 ---
 hw/pc.c                 |    7 ++++
 hw/pc.h                 |    2 -
 hw/pci.c                |   46 +++++++++++++++---------------
 hw/pci.h                |    2 -
 hw/shix.c               |   10 ------
 hw/slavio_intctl.c      |   16 ++++------
 hw/sun4c_intctl.c       |    6 ++-
 hw/sun4m.c              |   15 +---------
 hw/sun4m.h              |    8 -----
 hw/sun4u.c              |    8 -----
 monitor.c               |   72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 monitor.h               |    5 +++
 qemu-monitor.hx         |   17 ++++------
 target-ppc/cpu.h        |    2 +
 target-ppc/helper.c     |    1 +
 target-ppc/translate.c  |   40 +++++++++++++++----------
 vl.c                    |    8 ++--
 23 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 191 deletions(-)