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

[Anthony Liguori]

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.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori