Am 23.05.2012 14:44, schrieb Peter Maydell: > On 20 May 2012 10:02, Gleb Natapov <g...@redhat.com> wrote: >> There can be only one fw_cfg device, so saving global reference to it >> removes the need to pass its pointer around. > > This seems like a backwards step to me: one of the things that prevents > us supporting "two separate machines in one emulation" is that we have > various things that assume there's only one instance of themselves and > use globals. I don't think we should be adding any more...
While I concur with the design sentiment of avoiding globals where possible, I can understand having multiple CPU types in one machine, but multiple machines in one emulation? Do you have a specific example that cannot easily be modeled as multiple socket-connected executables? Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
