Re: [PATCH 0/2] Set user creatable for flag ibex uart and plic

[Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com>]

On 8/11/21 1:15 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 10:43, Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com> wrote:
>> This small series only consist in setting the user_creatable flag
>> of ibex_uart and ibex_plic devices. These two devices are already
>> using properties to configure themselves so nothing else is required.
>>
>> Note that this change alone will not allow creation of these devices
>> using -device cli option or device_add qmp command as they are sysbus
>> devices.
>>
>> We do that because we are currently working on adding the possibily
>> to configure/build a machine from qmp commands (see this rfc:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-05/msg03706.html).
>> We are using these simple devices in order to test our additions.
>>
>> We prefer to send these 2 patches on a separate series as they are not
>> really related to the main topic. We will send a following series
>> for the additions.
> 
> No, these patches should go in with your other series that
> requires them, please. As standalone patches they are definitely
> wrong, because (as you note) you cannot usefully user-create a
> sysbus device like these from the command line.
> 
> Even there I'm not convinced that just marking the devices
> user-creatable is the right thing -- if we support creating
> a complete machine from QMP commands we probably want to think
> about whether that means we need to have separate categories
> of "only creatable from C code", "only creatable as part of
> QMP machine creation", "creatable on commandline but only
> for cold-plug", and "hotpluggable".
> 
> -- PMM
> 

I understand, we will put them in the main series where
we will discuss all of this.

Thanks,
--
Damien