Am 14.12.2012 16:40, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> 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).

Hm, Anthony told me with one of his qbus refactoring patches back in
qom-next the last remaining assumptions (info qdm) were removed...

Probably we're the first to test though. ;)

Andreas

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