Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qom-cpu 0/6] cpu: Unifying features parsing

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 03/04/2014 01:55 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Prompted by Alexey's desire for tweakable PowerPCCPU properties but also by
> Peter's wish for ARMCPU properties, this series sets out to align cpu_model
> parsing across targets.
> 
> QemuOpts would've been nice to use, but on the one hand x86 and sparc use
> QemuOpts-incompatible +foo and -foo syntax (which accumulate rather than apply
> immediately) and on the other linux-user and bsd-user don't use QemuOpts at 
> all.
> 
> The x86 implementation is closest to the proposed API, save for some laziness.
> SPARC is brought in line. And as fallback for the remaining targets a new
> implementation, derived from x86 but supporting only key=value format, is 
> added.
> 
> To facilitate using this infrastructure, a generic CPU init function is 
> created.


Besides the fact that this patchset does not support dynamic properties
(added by object_property_add(), and I used it in my initial patchset),
that works for SPAPR, just need to implement property statically (tested).




-- 
Alexey