Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu_reserve_isa_irq()

[Jes Sorensen]

On 08/11/2009 04:08 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 08/11/09 13:32, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > In principle that would be good, the problem is just that the most of
> > the code still brute force messages with the i8259 array directly,
> > including the new ISA code. It really needs to be fixed to reference
> > the ISA IRQ number and not the i8259 array directly :-(
>
> How about making isa-bus.c own the i8259 array then? We could pass it to
> isa_bus_new. Then switch over to reference isa irqs by number. That
> allows isa-bus to keep track of the allocations. Maybe it makes sense to
> kill the sysbus-style isa_{init,connect}_irq split and have a irq bus
> property then.

Hi Gerd,

I would like to see that. I was looking into how much it would be, but I
got lost in the qdev dependencies :(

Cheers,
Jes