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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 00/15] data-driven device registers
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On 08/01/2016 11:40, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 January 2016 at 00:39, Alistair Francis
> <alistair.francis@xilinx.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Alistair Francis
>> <alistair.francis@xilinx.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.=
org> wrote:
>>>> On 15 December 2015 at 20:52, Peter Crosthwaite
>>>> <crosthwaitepeter@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> It needs to exist before it can be used so there is a bit of a chic=
ken
>>>>> and egg problem there.
>> No one seems to be jumping at reviewing this. Can we just send a pull =
request?
> I don't necessarily require review [*]. I would like *somebody* other
> than you Xilinx folk to say "yes, I think I would use this for
> modelling devices". Otherwise all we have is "weird thing used
> only in two or three Xilinx devices and nowhere else", which I'm
> a bit reluctant to let into the tree. We already have a pretty
> wide divergence in how devices look just based on the various
> transitions from older to newer qdev/QOM/etc that are not complete.
>
> [*] by which I mean, I will review this series if you can find
> somebody else who's going to say they'd use it.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>

Hi Peter,

This is useful for us as well.
My point view is that it is an easy and clean way of implementing devices=
=2E
BTW we have the same mechanism to model devices in SystemC.

Thanks,
Fred