I find myself with a use case where I would like to set a CPU object property from the board model init function (specifically, I'd like the board model to be able to say "this CPU will boot via PSCI so if you're KVM then start it appropriately").
I could just reach in and fiddle with the ARMCPU field the way hw/arm/highback.c does with reset_cbar (and in fact that's what I'm likely to do for the moment). However it seems like it would be nicer for it to be an official QOM property. This is alas not currently possible because cpu_arm_init() does both 'init' and 'realize', and once you've called it it's too late to set properties. Andreas -- did you have any thoughts/plans/code in this area? Splitting the realize part out of cpu_arm_init(), or providing a cpu_arm_init_dont_realize() [ugh], would be easy to code but is it going in the right direction? thanks -- PMM