Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] generalize parsing of cpu_model (part 4)

[Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:49:25 +0000
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 18 January 2018 at 13:45, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:36:40 +0000
> > Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> >  
> >> On 18 January 2018 at 13:34, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> wrote:  
> >> > and renaming
> >> >
> >> > TARGET_DEFAULT_CPU_TYPE to USERONLY_DEFAULT_CPU_TYPE
> >> >
> >> > but I'd still keep it within $ARCH/cpu.h so we won't
> >> > have to create a bunch of new linux-user/$ARCH/target_elf.h
> >> > files just for that and duplicate it to bsd-user/$ARCH/target_elf.h  
> >>
> >> We already have linux-user/$ARCH/target_cpu.h, which is exactly
> >> for this kind of define.  
> > we don't have it for bsd-user though and it would be
> > code duplication to add such.
> > Using $ARCH/cpu.h seems to be a better fit for sharing
> > default across liux/bsd-user.  
> 
> Yes, bsd-user is a bit unmaintained and behind linux-user in
> its structuring. I don't mind bsd-user being a bit of a mess,
> but I don't want problems in bsd-user to cause us to put code
> where it shouldn't be in other parts of the codebase. (It's
> not inherently the case that "best CPU choice for Linux user"
> is the same as "best CPU choice for bsd-user" either.)
Ok, if there isn't objections wrt above mentioned code
duplication in *-user, I surely can implement it as far as
I can remove cpu_model along with it.

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM