Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/6] machine: Convert the valid cpu types to use cpu_model

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 05:33:43PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:15:21 +0200
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> > Yes. Eduardo and you should write some lines to explain this, and then
> > we will follow :)
> Unfortunately I don't recall details anymore. One could check out all
> implementations of class_by_name callbacks to find out current state.

See this message for a summary of existing class_by_name quirks:

  https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg615503.html
  Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 10:34:44 +0200
  Message-ID: <address@hidden>
  Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Delete 16 *_cpu_class_by_name() 
functions

I'm unsure about Igor's suggestion to get rid of CPU model names
and use only QOM type names in external interfaces.  In either
case, we can still simplify the rules rules and reduce the amount
of arch-specific code.

-- 
Eduardo