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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/6] qdev: reset qdev along with qdev tree
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:01:36 +0100
In-Reply-To: <4D0FB11D.4030607@mail.berlios.de> (Stefan Weil's message of
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To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> writes:

> Am 20.12.2010 13:58, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
>> Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 12/17/2010 08:45 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>> On 17 December 2010 00:24, Anthony
>>>> Liguori<aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/16/2010 05:48 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ugh, I keep forgetting about the non-qdev systems.
>>>>>> Maybe it's a good way to finally make everyone to convert? If a system
>>>>>> maintainer can't be bothered to convert to qdev we can declare the
>>>>>> system unsupported :)
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Honestly, I think that's a fair thing to do.
>>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing that would be a transition/conversion to make for the
>>>> 0.15 release, right?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> Let's do it.
>
>
> I already tried to convert malta / gt64xxx to qdev. While simple
> devices are easily converted, I'm still struggling with gt64xxx.

Specific problems?

> There is some qdev documentation for end users (command line
> parameters), but is there qdev documentation for developers, too?
> If not, adding a qdev chapter to qemu-tech.texi (preferred), writing a
> qdev wiki page, code templates (for systems / buses / bus controllers /
> bus devices) or some other form of documentation would be a good start
> for release 0.15 (imho).

It's not what you ask for, but perhaps it helps a bit anyway:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/f/fe/2010-forum-armbru-qdev.pdf