Re: arm: "max" CPU class hierarchy changes possible?

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 14:27, Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de> wrote:
> the "max" cpu in x86 and s390 is a class,
>
> and then "host" has "max" as parent.
>
> This would be a convenient setup for ARM too, as it would allow to put common 
> code between kvm and tcg in the "max" class,
> and allow "host" to specialize the behavior for KVM (and in the future HVF 
> probably).
>
> Would changing the class hierarchy this way be acceptable, cause any problems?

It's not clear to me why 'host' would be a subtype of 'max':
that doesn't seem like an obvious relationship.

thanks
-- PMM