Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] qom: Make CPU a child of DeviceState

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 14/12/2012 16:29, Andreas Färber ha scritto:
> The latest motivation for making the CPU a device was to have the static
> properties infrastructure for machine/CPU versioning. The global
> property defaults are set in qdev's instance_init, so object_new() seems
> fine for that.
> 
> qdev_[try_]create() would further set the parent bus to SysBus if NULL.
> The CPU is not a SysBusDevice so I think not using qdev_create() may be
> safer... Maybe Anthony or Paolo can confirm?

I think various parts of qdev assume there is a bus, so actually using
SysBus would be safer (though uglier).

Paolo