On 19 March 2013 10:27, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > Il 19/03/2013 11:10, Peter Maydell ha scritto: >> Well, for the CPU to be a proper QOM object it should be exposing >> the IRQ/FIQ lines normally, not via the code in hw/arm/pic_cpu.c. > > That applies to everything else that was put in hw/ARCH. Everything > could become a QOM property.
Yes. If we clean this stuff up I can kick it back out of hw/ARCH :-) >> My point is that the QOM abstraction should encapsulate the CPU >> cores just like any other piece of hardware. We're not there yet >> but that's where we should be going. You can't really put the >> CPUs into the a9mpcore &c containers until we've done that >> abstraction properly anyway. > > Why not? It would remove a bunch of code that is currently duplicated > in the boards. Hmm, maybe. -- PMM
