Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sysbus: add no_user for devices using mmio or IRQ or GPIO

[Peter Maydell]

On 8 March 2013 07:37, Peter Crosthwaite <address@hidden> wrote:
> Its all out of tree using out device tree driven machine instantiation
> but we are toying with the idea of moving away from that in favour of
> -device and friends (2100 less lines out of tree code for me), once
> the aforementioned fixes to sysbus/gpio go through. ARM MPTimer will
> still be one of the IPs we will want to dynamically create however.

Yeah, I think the 'completely specify your machine from pieces'
usecase is one we have in mind; it's just you can't do it today
(due to the irq/mmio issues). Also as I said it's not clear that
the UI/interface for that should be the same as the one for allowing
the user to plug in PCI cards or disks to a model somebody else
has constructed for them.

-- PMM