Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/35] hw/ reorganization, part 2

[Peter Maydell]

On 19 March 2013 10:27, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 19/03/2013 11:10, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> Well, for the CPU to be a proper QOM object it should be exposing
>> the IRQ/FIQ lines normally, not via the code in hw/arm/pic_cpu.c.
>
> That applies to everything else that was put in hw/ARCH.  Everything
> could become a QOM property.

Yes. If we clean this stuff up I can kick it back out of hw/ARCH :-)

>> My point is that the QOM abstraction should encapsulate the CPU
>> cores just like any other piece of hardware. We're not there yet
>> but that's where we should be going. You can't really put the
>> CPUs into the a9mpcore &c containers until we've done that
>> abstraction properly anyway.
>
> Why not?  It would remove a bunch of code that is currently duplicated
> in the boards.

Hmm, maybe.

-- PMM