Re: [RFC 12/13] rust/timer/hpet: add qdev APIs support

[Zhao Liu]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 07:58:07PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 19:58:07 +0100
> From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [RFC 12/13] rust/timer/hpet: add qdev APIs support
> 
> On 12/5/24 07:07, Zhao Liu wrote:
> > Implement QAPI support for HPET device in qdev.rs.
> > 
> > Additionally, wrap the handling of HPET internal details as traits to be
> > specifically implemented in hpet.rs.
> 
> Why not just put everything in a simple file to avoid the traits?

Ah, I considered that qdev has many unsafe C-style wrappers, to avoid
confusion with HPET state/timer methods... However, looking back now,
qdev and qom are already quite clean. I will merge this into hpet.rs in
the next version.

> > +pub(crate) trait RamOps {
> > +    fn read(&mut self, addr: hwaddr, _size: c_uint) -> u64;
> > +    fn write(&mut self, addr: hwaddr, value: u64, size: u64);
> > +}
> 
> Please try as much as possible to make these "&self", same for the GPIO
> handler.  That's the point of BqlCell/BqlRefCell. :)

Sure! Will do as you suggested.

Regards,
Zhao