On 14/02/2019 17.33, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 16:21, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> One of qdev's perennial sources of confusion is what to do at object >> instantiation time, i.e. in TypeInfo::instance_init(), and what to do at >> device realization time, i.e. in DeviceClass::realize(). > > Thanks for opening this topic. It's been on my todo list for a > long time to try to figure out what the answer is...
I also got no proper answers here, but FWIW, I wrote down some things I noticed last year here: http://people.redhat.com/~thuth/blog/qemu/2018/09/10/instance-init-realize.html Thomas