Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] target-alpha: Add support for -cpu ?

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:59:46PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 6 December 2012 15:37, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> > target-arm has very similar code. Isn't it better to first write a
> > common reusable function to list CPU models using the list of
> > subclasses, instead of adding very similar functions to all
> > architectures?
> 
> What would be particularly useful to have as a common
> utility routine is support for x86-style +feature,-feature
> syntax. At the moment we don't implement that on most
> other targets but it would be good to have that on ARM
> at some point.

Once we finish the work on x86, I plan to make the code reusable by
other architectures.

That would include the +feature,-feature parsing and the CPU model ->
CPU class lookup (this one may be more complicated to make reusable, but
I think it's doable).

-- 
Eduardo