Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > wrote: >> On 14 August 2012 09:27, Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> "Peter A. G. Crosthwaite" <peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com> wrote: >>>> Hi All. PMM raised a query on a recent series of mine (the SSI series) >>>> about >>>> handling VMSD for devices which define state at multiple levels of the QOM >>>> heirachy. >> >>> - If you ask me, I would very much preffer something like PCI devices, >>> where the 1st field of any specific device is the i2c part. This >>> would achieve two things: >>> * all i2c devices would have the common fields at the beggining >>> * we sent the data for one device in one go, so we will never had >>> trouble making sure that both devices arrive at the same time, in >>> the right order, etc. >>> >>> - I guess there is same reasy why you want to split the device state, >>> it could be on the other series where I haven't read it though. > > So this is exactly what I have done in the SSI. Correct me if I am > wrong but it is the same setup as PCI where the VMSTATE_PCI_DEVICE > (VMSTATE_SSI_SLAVE in my case) is the first field. All I need to do is > bump version numbers?
I think so. What boards normally use SSI? Later, Juan.