Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM QOM conversion / class hierarchy

[Peter Maydell]

On 20 March 2012 16:06, Paul Brook <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Yes, I think I'd agree there. So should we just have an init function
>> that provides the implementation-specific cp15 registers based on the value
>> provided in the QOM property for the main ID register?
>
> Something like that, yes.  I'm not convinced the main ID register is the right
> property to use, but for actual implementation specific bits (rather than bits
> where an implementation picks one of a few common options) I guess we don't
> have any alternative but enumerating the implementations we support.

Mmm, the disgusting thing the TI925T has where it can programmatically
change the value of its main ID register does somewhat argue against using
it for this.

-- PMM