Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/5] RFC: distinguish warm reset from cold reset.

[Gleb Natapov]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:08:17AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 08/30/2010 09:58 PM, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> >>I was thinking that we should stick entirely within the qdev abstraction.
> >>
> >>The patchset I sent out introduced a cold reset as a qdev property on
> >>the devices.
> >>
> >>For warm reset, if I understand correctly, we need two things.  We need
> >>to 1) control propagation order and we need to 2) differentiate
> >>per-device between cold reset and warm reset.
> >>
> >>For (2), I don't know that we truly do need it.  For something like PCI
> >>AER, wouldn't we just move the AER initialization to the qdev init
> >>function and then never change the AER registers during reset?
> >>
> >>IOW, the only way to do a cold reset would be to destroy and recreate
> >>the device.
> >I'm lost here. Then, what should qdev_reset() do?
> 
> I don't know, that's what I'm trying to understand.
> 
> As of this moment, you've convinced me that it should be a warm
> reset.  However, I'm not yet convinced that we need to allow buses
> to change the propagation path of the warm reset.
> 
System_reset should do cold reset like it does now.
 
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                        Gleb.