Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] report serial devices created with -device in the PIIX4 config space

[Anthony Liguori]

On 07/24/2011 04:35 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 24.07.2011 um 20:57 schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>
> > On 07/24/2011 01:45 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > On 07/16/2011 04:39 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > > Instead of checking for a port assignment, couldn't we do a device tree
> > > > transversal and look for isa-serial devices? We could then look at the
> > > > iobase property to figure out which serial device is configured.
> > >
> > > ---BTW, I set to do this first but changed
> > > plans after I noticed that there are no qdev property getters.
> >
> > :-/
> >
> > I seem to recall a patch to add them but it's not a very nice solution
> > either.
>
> Mine, in the ISA/PReP series. The alternative is moving lots of device
> state to header files.
> Adding the getters avoided patch conflicts and seemed cleaner
> symmetry-wise.

The getters lack type safety though which is unfortunate.  That said, I 
guess it's the best we can do with qdev.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
> Andreas