From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com, "Jiri Denemark" <jdenemar@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 0/7] x86 CPU subclasses, take 7
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:52:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52EBD4E9.2000700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140131164207.GZ2221@otherpad.lan.raisama.net>
Il 31/01/2014 17:42, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto:
>> > It looks like only -device would be able to create actual CPU models,
>> > but for -device to work we need as minimum this series and conversion
>> > of CPU features to properties in tree. Then I guess we can override
>> > cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet for x86 CPUs.
> Setting cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet=false looks much simpler
> than implementing UserCreatable. My question is: may we do that, already
> (once this series gets included), or is there something else holding us
> from doing it?
Once you make something creatable with "-object", the API must not
change anymore. So we would have to think twice about that.
Allowing -device may be okay, since in the (very?) long term -device can
be replaced by -object. But -object is definitive.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-31 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-30 19:48 [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 0/7] x86 CPU subclasses, take 7 Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-30 19:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 1/7] target-i386: Eliminate CONFIG_KVM #ifdefs Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 11:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-30 19:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 2/7] target-i386: Don't change x86_def_t struct on cpu_x86_register() Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 11:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-30 19:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 3/7] target-i386: Move KVM default-vendor hack to instance_init Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 11:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-30 19:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 4/7] target-i386: Rename cpu_x86_register() to x86_cpu_load_def() Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 11:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-10 0:03 ` Andreas Färber
2014-01-30 19:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 5/7] target-i386: Call x86_cpu_load_def() earlier Eduardo Habkost
2014-02-10 0:13 ` Andreas Färber
2014-01-30 19:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 6/7] target-i386: Rename x86_def_t to X86CPUDefinition Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 11:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-10 0:14 ` Andreas Färber
2014-01-30 19:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 7/7] target-i386: CPU model subclasses Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 17:20 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 18:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 7/7 v8] " Eduardo Habkost
2014-02-10 0:23 ` Andreas Färber
2014-02-10 8:19 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-02-10 8:26 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-02-10 10:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [qom-cpu PATCH 7/7 v9] " Eduardo Habkost
2014-02-10 22:39 ` Andreas Färber
2014-02-11 8:05 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-02-11 8:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-10 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 7/7 v8] " Igor Mammedov
2014-01-30 21:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 0/7] x86 CPU subclasses, take 7 Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-31 11:30 ` Andreas Färber
2014-01-31 11:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-31 12:17 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 12:14 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 14:36 ` Igor Mammedov
2014-01-31 14:48 ` Igor Mammedov
2014-01-31 14:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-31 15:17 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 16:06 ` Igor Mammedov
2014-01-31 16:42 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 16:52 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-01-31 18:51 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 18:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Eric Blake
2014-01-31 19:08 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 19:18 ` Igor Mammedov
2014-01-31 19:25 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 15:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduardo Habkost
2014-01-31 15:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
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