[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] i386: generate pc guest info
Andreas Färber
afaerber at suse.de
Wed Jul 24 16:52:05 CEST 2013
Hi Gerd,
Am 24.07.2013 16:42, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
>>> This does not satisfy the "should use QOM properties" requirement that
>>> we discussed in the RFC thread.
>>
>> I don't know which part of the RFC thread still applied and
>> which doesn't: at that point you were rejecting the whole
>> approach.
>>
>> I found a mail where you said:
>> I'd be a lot happier if we were passing more information to this routine
>> and not hard coding it. For instance, the PCI interrupt assignments,
>> the APIC ids, the number of available CPUs, etc.
>>
>> So this is exactly what this code does.
>> What, exactly, would you like to see instead?
>> Create a guest info QOM object, and encode all information used by ACPI
>> generation as properties of this object?
>
> Don't touch device code for this.
>
>>>> -void pvpanic_init(ISABus *bus)
>>>> +void pvpanic_init(ISABus *bus, PcGuestInfo *guest_info)
>>>> {
>>>> ISADevice *dev;
>>>> - FWCfgState *fw_cfg = fw_cfg_find();
>>>> + FWCfgState *fw_cfg = guest_info->fw_cfg;
>>>> if (!fw_cfg) {
>>>> return;
>>>> }
>>>> dev = isa_create_simple (bus, TYPE_ISA_PVPANIC_DEVICE);
>>>> - pvpanic_fw_cfg(dev, fw_cfg);
>>>> + pvpanic_guest_info(dev, guest_info);
>>>> }
>
> To pick this one as example: Instead of patching pvpanic code to stuff
> config info into GuestInfo you should (1) search the device object tree
> for a pvpanic device and (b) if present read the ioport property to
> figure the base address.
Yeah, the above does not feel so nice from a QOM view (didn't review the
ACPI series yet).
> /me suggests to check out qmp_qom_get() in qmp.c. Some qom aequivalent
> for qdev_find_recursive would be handy, dunno whenever such a thing
> exists already, Andreas?
Not sure what's needed here? object_resolve_path() and
object_foreach_child() come to mind...
Regards,
Andreas
> I'd tend to accept GuestInfo as temporary thing for stuff which can't be
> figured using qom properties today. Anthony might disagree though.
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
>
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