On Fri, 03 May 2013 11:46:59 -0500 Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > It's easier adapting the infrastructure to our needs than working around it: > > X86CPU already has QOM properties today. What's lacking is model subclasses, > > and with the one X86CPU type its global properties are overwritten by > > models. > > But we already know the designated naming scheme for the models! > > > > So let's simply prepare compat_props for CPU models and make sure they are > > already picked up today. > > > > This works just fine for changing the 486 CPUID model value and avoids to > > redo the PC part once we have X86CPU subclasses. > > Tested using: ./QMP/qom-get /machine/icc-bridge/icc/child[0].model > > So, what's left to do with subclass modelling? I plan to resubmit static properties and then subclass modeling for 1.6. > > How long are we going to need to carry something like this? It will be removed with x86 CPU static properties and CPU sub-classes. > > It's a clever work around but I'm a bit concerned that it would grow > beyond cpu subclasses and that we'd be stuck with it forever. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > > > > For changing n270 CPUID flags we'll still need to resort to Eduardo's > > proposed > > helper functions for now. > > > > Regards, > > Andreas > > > > Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> > > Cc: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> > > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> > > Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> > > Cc: Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> > > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> > > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> > > > > Andreas Färber (4): > > qdev: Let qdev_prop_parse() pass through Error > > qdev: Introduce qdev_prop_set_custom_globals() > > target-i386: Emulate X86CPU subclasses for global properties > > target-i386: Change CPUID model of 486 to 8 > > > > hw/core/qdev-properties.c | 50 > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ > > hw/core/qdev.c | 7 ++++++- > > include/hw/i386/pc.h | 4 ++++ > > include/hw/qdev-properties.h | 7 +++++-- > > qdev-monitor.c | 6 +++++- > > target-i386/cpu.c | 11 +++++++++- > > 6 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) > > > > -- > > 1.8.1.4 -- Regards, Igor