Re: [Qemu-devel] Are "info pic" and "info irq" still of any use?

2015-04-01 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 31.03.2015 um 11:56 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben: > These commands look like bit-rotted development aids to me. > > They're limited to just a few interrupt controllers. For the most > common machine types and accelerators, they do nothing. > > They complicate David Gibson's work on disen

Re: [Qemu-devel] Are "info pic" and "info irq" still of any use?

2015-03-31 Thread Markus Armbruster
Paolo Bonzini writes: > On 31/03/2015 11:56, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> These commands look like bit-rotted development aids to me. >> >> They're limited to just a few interrupt controllers. For the most >> common machine types and accelerators, they do nothing. >> >> They complicate David Gi

Re: [Qemu-devel] Are "info pic" and "info irq" still of any use?

2015-03-31 Thread Michael Walle
Am 2015-03-31 11:56, schrieb Markus Armbruster: [..] * lm32-softmmu This is lm32_hmp_info_pic(), lm32_hmp_info_irq(). Both do nothing when !pic. Set by init() method of "lm32-pic". Thus, two cases: - Machines sporting an "lm32-pic" These are lm32-evr, lm32-uclinux, milkymi

Re: [Qemu-devel] Are "info pic" and "info irq" still of any use?

2015-03-31 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 31/03/2015 11:56, Markus Armbruster wrote: > These commands look like bit-rotted development aids to me. > > They're limited to just a few interrupt controllers. For the most > common machine types and accelerators, they do nothing. > > They complicate David Gibson's work on disentangling d

[Qemu-devel] Are "info pic" and "info irq" still of any use?

2015-03-31 Thread Markus Armbruster
These commands look like bit-rotted development aids to me. They're limited to just a few interrupt controllers. For the most common machine types and accelerators, they do nothing. They complicate David Gibson's work on disentangling dependencies on ISA. I'm cc'ing the maintainers of all machi