On 26 January 2018 at 15:44, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> wrote:
> On 01/26/2018 11:33 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 26 January 2018 at 14:29, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> wrote:
>>> Why not use arm_any_initfn() here?
>>
>> That function (and the 'any' cpu) are deliberately only
>> included in the linux-user binaries, not the system-emulation binaries.
>
> why not use the V8 features?

What v8 features?

>> (Also arm_any_initfn() only initializes userspace-visible stuff, it
>> doesn't provide ID register values etc for kernel-visible things.)
>
> I'd still use an unique arm_max_initfn() such
>
>   // initializes userspace-visible stuff
> #ifndef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
>   // initializes kernel-visible things
> #endif

>>> Actually what seems cleaner is to move "any" features here, and kill the
>>> "any" cpu, using "max" for this purpose.
>>
>> We can't kill 'any', that would break back-compatibility
>> of command lines.
>
> and use an alias for 'any' -> 'max' or just
>
>   { .name = "any", .initfn = arm_max_initfn }, /* backward compat */

Yes, we could probably do something similar to this.

thanks
-- PMM

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