Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] [PATCH 0/4] cpu: Implement cpu_generic_new()

[Peter Maydell]

On 13 February 2017 at 14:28, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patchset adds a new function cpu_generic_new()
> which is similar to cpu_generic_init() except that it
> does not realize the created CPU object. This means that
> board code can do a "new cpu; set QOM properties; realize"
> sequence without having to do all the work of splitting
> the CPU model string and calling parse_features by hand.
>
> Patch 2 clarifies a TODO comment, hopefully correctly,
> based on an email conversation I had with Eduardo a
> little while back.
>
> Patches 3 and 4 change the ARM boards which currently
> call parse_features by hand to use the new function.
>
>
> If there's consensus that this is the right general
> direction to go in, then I think that some other
> architectures could also make cleanups to use this:
>  * cpu_s390x_create() is almost exactly this function,
>    give or take some fine detail of error handling
>  * ppc_cpu_parse_features is almost the same thing,
>    except that it doesn't actually create the CPU object,
>    it only calls parse_features
>  * hw/i386/pc.c does a manual parse_features
>
> I'm not strongly attached to this particular approach
> (though it seems like a reasonable one, especially given
> the proliferation of different arch-specific helpers
> listed above and the bugs in boards which don't call
> parse_features when they should), but I would like us to
> figure out and document what the right way for a board
> to create and configure its CPU objects is...

I know it's only been a few days, but I just wanted to
say that I'd appreciate it if we could manage relatively
quick review on this one, since I have a set of patches
pending that depend on this and which it would be nice
to get into 2.9 (softfreeze approaching rapidly).

thanks
-- PMM