Re: [PATCH for-6.2 0/8] softmmu: Clean up arch_init.c

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 11:59, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> This patchset does some cleanups of arch_init.c.  The bit I started
> out caring about was getting rid of the TARGET_* ifdef ladder (in
> patch 4 we make meson.build define QEMU_ARCH in config-target.h
> instead) -- this kind of ifdef ladder is nasty because it's always
> another place in the code that needs updating when we add or remove a
> target.  I think this was one of the last remaining "every single
> arch touches this" ones.  The rest of the patchset is stuff I noticed
> when I started looking at what else arch_init.c was doing.
>
> The graphic_width/height/depth target-specific defaults that
> arch_init.c does also look like they could use cleanup.  My guess is
> that we should instead have a per-machine default graphics
> width/height/depth.  But that's a separate thing and more work than I
> felt like doing this morning :-)

I'll take this via target-arm.next unless anybody objects.

thanks
-- PMM