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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/6] Add a valid_cpu_types property
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Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, alistair23@gmail.com, Andrew Baumann <Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, ehabkost@redhat.com, marcel@redhat.com

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:13:40 +0100
Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:

> On 02/02/2018 01:42 AM, Alistair Francis wrote:
> >=20
> > There are numorous QEMU machines that only have a single or a handful of
> > valid CPU options. To simplyfy the management of specificying which CPU
> > is/isn't valid let's create a property that can be set in the machine
> > init. We can then check to see if the user supplied CPU is in that list
> > or not. =20
>=20
> Sadly this series missed the 2.12 train.
problematic part here is 'cpu_type -> cpu_model' conversion
without introducing back cpu model names in boards code.

Each target sort of already has this code 'cpu_list' for
printing supported CPU models. What we need is to generalize
it as most of the targets implement it the same way.
And then reuse generic code for 'cpu_type -> cpu_model'
so that boards won't have to be involved in it.

So currently cpu_list needs a volunteer who would be able
to generalize it and cleanup all targets across the the tree.