Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFT][PATCH 05/15] hpet: Convert to qdev

[Jan Kiszka]

Paul Brook wrote:
>> +static SysBusDeviceInfo hpet_device_info = {
>> +    .qdev.name    = "hpet",
>> +    .qdev.size    = sizeof(HPETState),
>> +    .qdev.no_user = 1,
> 
> Why shouldn't the user create HPET devices? I thought you'd removed all the 
> global state.

Long-term, there is no reason to deny this.

But the code is not yet ready for this: we statically instantiate it
during PC setup to establish the routings and respect -no-hpat. Also,
the BIOS isn't prepared for > 1 HPET.

Jan

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