Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/35] hw/ reorganization, part 2

[Peter Maydell]

On 19 March 2013 22:23, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 19/03/2013 11:32, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> On 19 March 2013 10:27, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Il 19/03/2013 11:10, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>>>> My point is that the QOM abstraction should encapsulate the CPU
>>>> cores just like any other piece of hardware. We're not there yet
>>>> but that's where we should be going. You can't really put the
>>>> CPUs into the a9mpcore &c containers until we've done that
>>>> abstraction properly anyway.
>>>
>>> Why not?  It would remove a bunch of code that is currently duplicated
>>> in the boards.
>>
>> Hmm, maybe.
>
> So, okay to put these in hw/arm and then I'll work on patches moving
> cpu_arm_init to a*mpcore.c?

Wrong way round. If you can't put the cpu_arm_init into the a*mpcore
in a way that doesn't make you want to put them in hw/arm/ then
it should wait until we've QOMified the CPU cores sufficiently
that we can do it properly.

-- PMM