Re: [PATCH 12/15] hw/timer/arm_timer: Pass timer output IRQ as parameter to arm_timer_new

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 21:37, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Both SP804State/IcpPitState peek at ArmTimerState internal state.
> This is fine so far but we want to convert ArmTimerState to QOM
> where peeking at QOM state internal should be avoided.
> ArmTimerState's IRQ is just a pointer, so we can pass/set it via
> argument, avoiding accessing ArmTimerState internal state except
> from the arm_timer_*() methods.

If we convert ArmTimerState to QOM then shouldn't the
irq become a sysbus IRQ on the ArmTimerState object,
and the looking at the internals go away automatically?

-- PMM