Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] generalize parsing of cpu_model (part 4)

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 January 2018 at 19:15, Igor Mammedov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:12:09 +0000
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I like moving this from being an ifdef ladder into per-cpu
>> code, but I don't think the definition belongs in target/$ARCH.
>> It's part of the choice usermode makes about how to handle
>> binaries it's loading, so it should go in linux-user/$ARCH/target_cpu.h.
>> target/$ARCH should really be for things that are properties
>> of the architecture.
> That's used not only by linux-user but also reused by null-machine.c
> to get access to a target specific cpu_class_by_name() callback.

That usage must want a different name, though, surely?
For Arm the default CPU for linux-user is 'any' but that
is usermode only and won't work for system emulation so
null-machine.c will need to pick something else.

thanks
-- PMM