Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 09/15] hw: Added generic FIFO API.

[Igor Mitsyanko]

On 08/06/2012 01:48 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 6 August 2012 03:16, Peter A. G. Crosthwaite
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Added a FIFO API that can be used to create and operate byte FIFOs.
> I'm not asking for actual conversions, but it would be nice to see a
> list of some devices that could in principle be moved to using this FIFO,
> as an indication of its general utility.
>
> Would it make sense for the FIFO to be a QOM object, or is that a
> silly idea?
>
> -- PMM
FIFO introspection capability could be useful I think, and we could 
implement device-specific fifo "mutants" then (for example, PL330 fifo 
could be a general FIFO object + "tag" variable).