Il 18/07/2012 15:19, Wanpeng Li ha scritto: > [CCing ML] > > This series aggressively refactors the PC machine initialization to be more > modelled and less ad-hoc. The highlights of this series are: > > 1) Things like -m and -bios-name are now device model properties > > 2) The i440fx and piix3 are now modelled in a thorough fashion > > 3) Most of the chipset features of the piix3 are modelled through composition > > 4) i440fx_init is trivialized to creating devices and setting properties > > 5) convert MemoryRegion to QOM > > 6) convert PCI host bridge to QOM > > The point (4) is the most important one. As we refactor in this fashion, > we should quickly get to the point where machine->init disappears completely > in > favor of just creating a handful of devices. > > The two stage initialization of QOM is important here. instance_init() is > when > composed devices are created which means that after you've created a device, > all > of its children are visible in the device model. This lets you set properties > of the parent and its children. > > realize() (which is still called DeviceState::init today) will be called right > before the guest starts up for the first time. > > Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liw...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Why should we include this? I assume it conflicts uselessly with the work Jason is doing on q35. Paolo
