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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/21] QEMU Object Model
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 07/28/2011 08:50 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/28/2011 02:46 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>> There are plenty of PV interfaces implemented by QEMU. Would you say the
>>> same of virtio?
>>
>> Virtio was designed to look like real hardware.
>>
>> I would say that trying to fit XenStore into QOM would not be a good
>> exercise.
>
> No doubt about that. :) I'd put a lot more hope into Goldfish though.

What's unclear to me about the Goldfish enumerator is whether it should 
be filled out through interaction with hardware devices or via some 
other mechanism.

In many ways, it's similar to ACPI and a Device Tree.  In both of those 
cases, firmware actually is responsible for constructing those tables.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Paolo
>