Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] generalize parsing of cpu_model

[Peter Maydell]

On 21 February 2017 at 12:44, Igor Mammedov <address@hidden> wrote:
> If we are to ditch legacy approach,
> It would be cleaner for SoC to have fixed/unconfigurable
> CPU type and each SoC being modeled as a separate
> QOM object/type that would instantiate CPU directly
> with QOM style, using type name, like:
>
>     cpu = object_new(TYPE_FOO_CPU)
>     set props if necessary
>     object_property_set_bool(cpu, true, "realized", &err)
>     object_unref(cpu)
>
> or similar with extra check/logic on top of plain object_new()
>
>     prepare cpu_opts for cpu type TYPE_FOO_CPU
>     cpu = qdev_device_add(cpu_opts)
>     object_unref(cpu)
>
> instead of using cpu_init/cpu_foo_init/cpu_generic_init()
> with cpu_model parsing logic which is not really needed
> there as concrete SoC model knows exact CPU type.

Mmm, I think that's probably best. Would the end-user
still be able to set CPU properties if necessary via
a -global command line switch (since -cpu type,foo=on
wouldn't work)?

(I just worry slightly that we might have users doing
weird things which we'd break.)

thanks
-- PMM