Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] hw: cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet due to pointer props

[Peter Maydell]

On 15 December 2013 20:55, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Since you're mentioned by name, should I wait for you to review the
> three OMAP parts?

There's nothing particularly omap-specific in them.

I kind of think this whole thing is backwards anyway:
we should really say "the user can only instantiate
devices via command line or monitor that are specifically
intended to be hot-pluggable", rather than having an
enormous list of devices we flag as not instantiable
by the user. Even if someday we manage to make it technically
possible to instantiate an omap_i2c device (say) from the
command line, it will still be a completely bizarre thing to do
because it's only intended to work as a part of the omap SoC.

Being able to write board models in something other than C
would be nice, but I really think that if we pursue the idea of
being able to do it all on the command line we'll just end up with
a horrifically confusing command line syntax.

thanks
-- PMM