Hello,

On 2/11/11, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbarysh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/11/11, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 31 January 2011 16:20, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbarysh...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> pxa2xx_pic duplicated some code from arm-pic. Drop it, replacing with
>>> references to arm-pic. Also use qdev/sysbus framework to handle
>>> pxa2xx-pic.
>>
>> The duplication involves about 4 lines of code, at this level I
>> strongly prefer to not add a level of calls that can't be inlined in a
>> fast path.  I guess the choice not to involve arm_pic was conscious.
>
> I just planned to later reuse allocated arm-pic IRQ's (the new one) to
> be passed to pxa2xx-gpio (to drop usage of cpu-env). I think. I can
> still allocate
> arm-pic but use only the last IRQ from it. Will that be suitable for you?

I recollected the reason for this change: there is no clean way to pass CPUState
to qdev. So It's either DEFINE_PROP_PTR() - like hack, or
encapsulating thins into
qemu_irq

arm_pic is used by several other ARM SoC emulators.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

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