On 2 January 2012 13:46, Andreas Färber<address@hidden> wrote:
* when can we expect to be able to model SoCs rather than CPUs? Will
this affect command line usage - are we going to have '-device
ti-tms570' rather than '-cpu cortex-r4' then, or -cpu overriding the
container's default?
My initial inclination is to say that specifying the CPU on the
command line is almost always the wrong thing for ARM platforms
(now or in a future QOM world). For instance, if you start the
vexpress-a9 board with something other than -cpu cortex-a9 it won't
complain but it won't do the right thing either (you'll get the
private peripherals for the A9 with whatever CPU core you asked for).
I don't think you want to have the user specifying -device my-soc
on the command line either -- the user should be selecting a board
(machine) model, which will generally nail down which soc and cpu
are used.