Re: [PATCH-for-11.0? 0/6] qom: Restrict compat properties API to system emulation

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

25.03.2026 18:17, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Remove QDev uses from QOM to help build the guest-agent
> binary without pulling in QDev methods.
> 
> After that only util/qsp.c is left (cond/mutex atomics),
> see this thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/a547c29b-3ab7-42fe-889a-19668bc9d090@tls.msk.ru/
> 
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (6):
>    MAINTAINERS: Separate QDev section from QOM one
>    hw/core: Move compat_props_add() to 'hw/core/boards.h'
>    qom: Declare GlobalProperty structure in 'qom/compat-properties.h'
>    qom: Declare compat properties API in 'qom/compat-properties.h'
>    qom: Restrict compat properties API to system emulation
>    buildsys: Allow building guest-agent on 32-bit hosts

Series:

Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

This definitely helps with qemu-ga issue (a few steps closer to it,
anyway), makes things better separated and cleaner, and might even
be simple enough for 11.0.  Though I'm not sure for the latter.

Thank you Philippe for this!

/mjt

>   MAINTAINERS                       |  21 +++---
>   configure                         |  64 +++++++++++++----
>   meson.build                       |   2 +-
>   include/hw/core/boards.h          |  11 +++
>   include/hw/core/qdev-properties.h |   1 +
>   include/hw/core/qdev.h            |  27 -------
>   include/qom/compat-properties.h   |  40 +++++++++++
>   include/qom/object.h              |   8 ---
>   accel/accel-system.c              |   1 +
>   backends/hostmem.c                |   1 +
>   hw/core/machine.c                 |   1 +
>   hw/core/qdev-properties.c         |   1 +
>   hw/core/qdev.c                    |   1 +
>   hw/i386/pc_q35.c                  |   1 +
>   qom/compat-properties.c           | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   qom/object.c                      | 102 +-------------------------
>   system/rtc.c                      |   1 +
>   system/vl.c                       |   1 +
>   target/i386/sev.c                 |   1 +
>   ui/vdagent.c                      |   1 +
>   qom/meson.build                   |   3 +
>   21 files changed, 248 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 include/qom/compat-properties.h
>   create mode 100644 qom/compat-properties.c
>