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Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3
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Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3 |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:13:15 +0000 |
On 3 January 2012 14:02, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01/03/2012 07:57 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> The CPU should always be a child of the board, surely, even if the user
>> might want to use a different one? That's just basic composition.
>> The links should be for "the CPU has two input IRQ lines" and so on.
>
> Not in the PC world.
>
> You buy a motherboard with an empty CPU socket and then purchase a CPU
> separately and plug it in.
>
> link<> essentially models any type of socket whereas child<> basically means
> "soldered to the board or embedded in silicon".
>
> It may be true for SoCs that CPUs are always child<> but that's not
> universal.
OK, that makes sense, although it leaves me a bit unclear how we
handle the legacy "-cpu" option (clearly useful for users but what it
ought to do to the underlying set of qom objects will vary from machine
to machine...)
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Peter Maydell, 2012/01/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Anthony Liguori, 2012/01/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Peter Maydell, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Alex Bradbury, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Anthony Liguori, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Peter Maydell, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Anthony Liguori, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3,
Peter Maydell <=
Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Anthony Liguori, 2012/01/02
Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Dor Laor, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Andreas Färber, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Vadim Rozenfeld, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Cao,Bing Bu, 2012/01/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/01/04