Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/14] target-arm: Add QOM subclasses for each ARM cpu implementation

[Peter Maydell]

On 13 November 2012 11:51, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 12.11.2012 23:33, schrieb Eduardo Habkost:
>> In that case, "cpu-any" wouldn't work, either. What about
>> "<arch>-cpu-<model>"?
>
> Fine with me. However, keep in mind the previous approach was used for
> command line compatibility: I would like to continue using -cpu
> cortex-a9 rather than -cpu arm-cpu-cortex-a9. :)

Yes, we need to maintain the command line names as-is.

> If we introduce a more complex command-line-to-class mapping, can't we
> drop these ominous "any" CPUs altogether? For my understanding they were
> used as wildcard CPUs for *-user. We could do the same by instantiating
> a real CPU like "cortex-a15" and possibly enabling some additional
> features afterwards.

I don't see what that gains us. The easiest way to say "it's
a cpu with all the feature bits turned on" is to define it as
a cpu with all the feature bits turned on :-)

-- PMM