On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:44:24PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote: > 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. ;)
BTW, we're also not including SysBus, on *-user. -- Eduardo
