On 23 July 2013 08:55, Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com> wrote: > - soft reset and other reset variants. What is the right way to go? > (e.g. on s390 there are several reset variants that reset a defined subset of > the > system. This can be triggered by operating systems, e.g. kdump uses a diagnose > instruction that resets the device subsystem and parts of the cpu registers > (some > are unchanged, this allows to take a proper crash dump with a well defined > system > state)
FWIW my suggestion is that we should actually model reset lines, any associated reset/power controller, etc: basically do what the hardware does. The qdev reset method should be restricted to "we powercycled the system". -- PMM
