Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 3/4] target-arm/helper.c: Allow const opaques in arm CP

[Peter Crosthwaite]

Hi Peter,

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10 July 2013 05:22,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Peter Crosthwaite <address@hidden>
>>
>> Allow for defining const opaque data in ARM CP register definitions by
>> setting .opaque = foo. If non null opaque is passes into
>> define_one_arm_cp_reg_with_opaque then that opaque will take
>> precedence, otherwise if null opaque is passed, the original opaque
>> data will be used.
>
> This doesn't seem to have any motivating use in later
> patches in the series, or did I miss it? I guess being able
> to have the opaque data in the data-tables is nice, though.
>

No on-list motivation but I thought I might send this through to get
opinion on its validity before I start relying on it out of tree.

Regards,
peter

> thanks
> -- PMM
>