Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] i386: Add "max" CPU model to TCG and KVM

[Peter Maydell]

On 19 January 2017 at 21:04, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is v2 of the previous series that enabled the "host" CPU
> model on TCG. Now a new "max" CPU is being added, while keeping
> "host" KVM-specific.
>
> In addition to simply adding "max" as a copy of the existing
> "host" CPU model, additional patches change it to not use any
> host CPUID information when in TCG mode.
>
> ---
> Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" <address@hidden>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <address@hidden>
> Cc: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> Cc: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
> Cc: Jiri Denemark <address@hidden>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Jason J. Herne" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>
> Eduardo Habkost (6):
>   i386: Unset cannot_destroy_with_object_finalize_yet on "host" model
>   i386: Add ordering field to CPUClass
>   i386: Rename X86CPU::host_features to X86CPU::max_features
>   i386: Create "max" CPU model
>   i386: Make "max" model not use any host CPUID info on TCG
>   i386: Don't set CPUClass::cpu_def on "max" model
>
>  target/i386/cpu-qom.h |   6 ++-
>  target/i386/cpu.h     |   2 +-
>  target/i386/cpu.c     | 110 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

Should we be documenting this new -cpu max somewhere?

(If this series is OK I can send patches to add support to
ARM, and also to add "-machine gic-version=max" to allow
picking the best available interrupt controller type, by
analogy.)

thanks
-- PMM