Il 14/12/2012 16:29, Andreas Färber ha scritto: > The latest motivation for making the CPU a device was to have the static > properties infrastructure for machine/CPU versioning. The global > property defaults are set in qdev's instance_init, so object_new() seems > fine for that. > > qdev_[try_]create() would further set the parent bus to SysBus if NULL. > The CPU is not a SysBusDevice so I think not using qdev_create() may be > safer... Maybe Anthony or Paolo can confirm?
I think various parts of qdev assume there is a bus, so actually using SysBus would be safer (though uglier). Paolo