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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	quintela@redhat.com,
	Developers qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 7
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:53:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F315704.1040306@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F31544B.8040808@suse.de>

On 02/07/2012 10:41 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 07.02.2012 16:21, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>> BTW, I would like to change /i440fx to /devices/i440fx, so that we will
>> have clean namespaces:
>>
>> /block
>>      ...
>> /chardev
>>      ...
>> /clocks
>>      ...
>> /devices
>>      /peripheral
>>          ...                 # named devices created with -device
>>      /peripheral-anon
>>          /child[...]         # unnamed devices created with -device
>>      /default
>>          /child[...]         # created with qdev_create
>
> I don't like that, I prefer /i440fx over /devices/i440fx. I don't mind
> the other root-level nodes though.

Let's try Paolo's cleanup for now.  I am worried about proliferation of things 
in the root hierarchy and the nice advantage of having /devices is that we can 
work towards making our build infrastructure roughly match our hierarchy.

Since 1.1 is unstable for QOM, we can always change it later.

>
> For PC-style machines I'd expect board-level stuff like the CPUs to
> appear directly under /. That would roughly correspond to the
> OpenFirmware device tree then.

I think devices trees are a bad example that should not be emulated.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Developers qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	quintela@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 7
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:53:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F315704.1040306@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F31544B.8040808@suse.de>

On 02/07/2012 10:41 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 07.02.2012 16:21, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>> BTW, I would like to change /i440fx to /devices/i440fx, so that we will
>> have clean namespaces:
>>
>> /block
>>      ...
>> /chardev
>>      ...
>> /clocks
>>      ...
>> /devices
>>      /peripheral
>>          ...                 # named devices created with -device
>>      /peripheral-anon
>>          /child[...]         # unnamed devices created with -device
>>      /default
>>          /child[...]         # created with qdev_create
>
> I don't like that, I prefer /i440fx over /devices/i440fx. I don't mind
> the other root-level nodes though.

Let's try Paolo's cleanup for now.  I am worried about proliferation of things 
in the root hierarchy and the nice advantage of having /devices is that we can 
work towards making our build infrastructure roughly match our hierarchy.

Since 1.1 is unstable for QOM, we can always change it later.

>
> For PC-style machines I'd expect board-level stuff like the CPUs to
> appear directly under /. That would roughly correspond to the
> OpenFirmware device tree then.

I think devices trees are a bad example that should not be emulated.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-07 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-06 19:25 KVM call agenda for Tuesday 7 Juan Quintela
2012-02-06 19:25 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2012-02-07 13:45 ` Andreas Färber
2012-02-07 13:45   ` Andreas Färber
2012-02-07 13:52   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-07 13:52     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-07 14:56     ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 14:56       ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 15:21       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-07 15:21         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-07 16:24         ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 16:24           ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 16:27           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-07 16:27             ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-07 16:33             ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 16:33               ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 16:40               ` Peter Maydell
2012-02-07 16:40                 ` Peter Maydell
2012-02-07 17:04               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-07 17:04                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-07 16:41         ` Andreas Färber
2012-02-07 16:41           ` Andreas Färber
2012-02-07 16:53           ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2012-02-07 16:53             ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 18:01   ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 18:01     ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 18:17     ` Andreas Färber
2012-02-07 18:17       ` Andreas Färber
2012-02-07 19:06       ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 14:23 ` Juan Quintela
2012-02-07 14:23   ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela

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