Hi
On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> Changes v1 (RFC) -> v2:
> * Patch 1 now just adds TYPE_SYS_BUS_DEVICE to the existing
> has_dynamic_sysbus=true machines, and other patches make
> the lists on each machine-type more specific.
> * Change the name of the new field to
> allowed_dynamic_sysbus_devices.
> * The q35 allowed list is much shorter because the list of
> user-creatable sysbus devices in QEMU is shorter.
> * Keep the xen_set_dynamic_sysbus() hack, just change it
> to add 'xen-sysdev" to the allowed list.
> * Simplified the arm/virt code.
>
> Summary
> -------
>
> This series replaces the existing has_dynamic_sysbus flag (that
> makes the machine accept every user-creatable sysbus device type
> on the command-line) with a list of allowed devices.
>
> This will be helpful when implementing the new query-device-slots
> command, because each machine type will include only the sysbus
> devices it really supports, instead of including a catch-all
> TYPE_SYS_BUS_DEVICE "slot".
>
> This will be useful to add support to new sysbus devices on
> machines like pc_piix, that don't have has_dynamic_sysbus set
> today.
>
> This also makes the code safer: just compiling a new sysbus
> device in the same QEMU binary won't make a machine-type
> automatically start accepting the device.
Anything left for the series? (besides review of patch 5?) I need this
to be solved for the pending TPM CRB device to work with piix. Thanks
>
> Cc: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
>
> Eduardo Habkost (6):
> machine: Replace has_dynamic_sysbus with list of allowed devices
> hw/arm/virt: Allow only supported dynamic sysbus devices
> ppc: e500: Allow only supported dynamic sysbus devices
> spapr: Allow only supported dynamic sysbus devices
> xen: Add only xen-sysdev to dynamic sysbus device list
> q35: Allow only supported dynamic sysbus devices
>
> include/hw/boards.h | 5 ++++-
> hw/arm/virt.c | 5 ++++-
> hw/core/machine.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> hw/i386/pc_q35.c | 5 ++++-
> hw/ppc/e500plat.c | 4 +++-
> hw/ppc/spapr.c | 2 +-
> hw/xen/xen_backend.c | 2 +-
> 7 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.13.6
>
>
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Marc-André Lureau