Re: [PATCH 3/4] alpha: Provide a PCI-ISA bridge device node for guest OS's that expect it

[Jason Thorpe]

> On Jun 14, 2021, at 9:20 PM, Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 6/13/21 2:15 PM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>> +/* The following was copied from hw/isa/i82378.c and modified to provide
>> +   only the minimal PCI device node.  */
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * QEMU Intel i82378 emulation (PCI to ISA bridge)
>> + *
> 
> Why can't we just use the existing device model?
> Certainly duplicating code like this isn't the best way.

Yah, I’m not super happy with that, either, tbh.  When I first started working 
on this several months ago, I it looked like it would be invasive to wire it up 
in the way the Alpha platform expects, but I can’t remember exactly what the 
issue was.

Anyways, I’ll look at it again.  Stay tuned.

-- thorpej