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


From: Andreas Färber
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qom-cpu 0/6] cpu: Unifying features parsing
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:32:34 +0100
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Am 04.03.2014 03:55, schrieb Andreas Färber:
> 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.
> 
> Only lightly tested. Available at:
> git://github.com/afaerber/qemu-cpu.git qom-cpu-features.v1
> https://github.com/afaerber/qemu-cpu/commits/qom-cpu-features.v1
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
> Cc: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> Cc: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> 
> Andreas Färber (6):
>   cpu: Introduce CPUClass::parse_features() hook
>   target-sparc: Use error_report() for CPU error reporting
>   target-sparc: Implement CPUClass::parse_features() for SPARCCPU
>   target-sparc: Defer SPARCCPU feature inference to QOM realize

Mark and Fabien, forgot to CC you: Could you take a look at the sparc
parts and give them some testing please?

The very latest version can be found on qom-cpu-ppc branch if necessary.

Thanks,
Andreas

>   cpu: Implement CPUClass::parse_features() for the rest of CPUs
>   cpu: Factor out cpu_generic_init()
> 
>  include/qom/cpu.h           | 14 +++++++
>  qom/cpu.c                   | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  target-arm/helper.c         | 14 +------
>  target-cris/cpu.c           | 13 +-----
>  target-i386/cpu.c           | 36 ++++++++++-------
>  target-lm32/helper.c        | 13 +-----
>  target-moxie/cpu.c          | 13 +-----
>  target-openrisc/cpu.c       | 13 +-----
>  target-ppc/translate_init.c | 21 +---------
>  target-sh4/cpu.c            | 13 +-----
>  target-sparc/cpu.c          | 96 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  target-unicore32/helper.c   | 13 ++----
>  12 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)

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