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

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 19/03/2013 11:32, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> 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.

So, okay to put these in hw/arm and then I'll work on patches moving
cpu_arm_init to a*mpcore.c?

Paolo