Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce DEVICE_CATEGORY_CPU for CPU devices

[Thomas Huth]

On 20.01.2017 13:31, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 January 2017 at 12:18, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Now that the hot-pluggable CPUs show up in the help text of
>> "-device ?", we should group them into an appropriate category.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  hw/ppc/pnv_core.c       | 1 +
>>  hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c | 1 +
>>  include/hw/qdev-core.h  | 1 +
>>  qdev-monitor.c          | 1 +
>>  target/i386/cpu.c       | 2 ++
>>  5 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> Can we just set the category bit in the class init functions
> for the TYPE_CPU and TYPE_CPU_CORE superclasses, rather
> than having to do it in a subclass for each architecture
> (and thus potentially forgetting to do it for other archs) ?

Good idea, that seems to work, too. I'll send a v2 ...

 Thomas