On 19 July 2018 at 15:23, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > There is currently a funny problem with the "mc146818rtc" device: > 1) Start QEMU like this: > qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries -S > 2) At the HMP monitor, enter "info qom-tree". Note that there is an > entry for "/rtc (spapr-rtc)". > 3) Introspect the mc146818rtc device like this: > device_add mc146818rtc,help > 4) Run "info qom-tree" again. The "/rtc" entry is gone now! > > The rtc_finalize() function of the mc146818rtc device has two bugs: First, > it tries to remove a "rtc" property, while the rtc_realizefn() added a > "rtc-time" property instead. And second, it should be done in an unrealize > function, not in a finalize function, to avoid that this causes problems > during introspection.
A device that adds a property to a machine is pretty weird... thanks -- PMM
