Re: [PATCH v2 12/20] ppc/ppc405: QOM'ify EBC

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 13:55, BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu> wrote:
> I know this is a mess curently but QOM is full of boilerplate code which
> is confusing for new people and makes it hard to undestand the code. So
> cutting down the boilerplate and making things simpler would help people
> who want to get started with QEMU development. If adding a property was
> 3-4 additional lines I wouldn't care but if it makes the code
> significantly more complex and thus harder to understand at a glance then
> I'd rather avoid it if possible and stick to simple terms.

I agree that QOM's boilerplate is not nice at all, but if
you do something other than the "standard QOM boilerplate"
solution to a problem then you make it harder for people who
at least know what the standard QOM approach is to figure out
why the code is doing what it does.

-- PMM