Re: [RFC v1 09/10] i386: split cpu.c and defer x86 models registration

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 09:39:37PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/11/20 18:55, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > > I think we should not try yo implement interfaces conditionally (i.e. have
> > > TYPE_X86_ACCEL implemented only on qemu-system-{i386,x86_64} and not
> > > qemu-system-arm), even if technically the accel/ objects are per-target
> > > (specific_ss) rather than common.
> > If the accel objects are already per target, it seems appropriate
> > to have a QOM type hierarchy that reflects that.
> > 
> > `qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm` would create a kvm-x86_64-accel
> > object, but `qemu-system-arm -accel kvm` would create a
> > kvm-arm-accel.
> 
> ... and fall back to kvm-accel?  So accel_find would be the only place to
> change.

Sounds good.  This way we don't need to convert all accelerators
or all targets at the same time.

-- 
Eduardo