Re: [PATCH] hw/misc/mips_itu: Make MIPSITUState target agnostic

[Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>]

On 9/18/23 09:30, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> @@ -530,9 +530,12 @@ static void mips_itu_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>       if (!s->cpu0) {
>           error_setg(errp, "Missing 'cpu[0]' property");
>           return;
> +    } else if (!object_dynamic_cast(OBJECT(s->cpu0), TYPE_MIPS_CPU)) {
> +        error_setg(errp, "MIPS ITU expects a MIPS CPU");
> +        return;
>       }
>   
> -    env = &s->cpu0->env;
> +    env = &MIPS_CPU(s->cpu0)->env;
>       if (env->saarp) {
>           s->saar = env->CP0_SAAR;
>       }...
> @@ -563,7 +566,7 @@ static Property mips_itu_properties[] = {
>                        ITC_FIFO_NUM_MAX),
>      DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("num-semaphores", MIPSITUState, num_semaphores,
>                        ITC_SEMAPH_NUM_MAX),
> -    DEFINE_PROP_LINK("cpu[0]", MIPSITUState, cpu0, TYPE_MIPS_CPU, MIPSCPU *),
> +    DEFINE_PROP_LINK("cpu[0]", MIPSITUState, cpu0, TYPE_CPU, CPUState *),
>      DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),

I think you want to keep TYPE_MIPS_CPU here.  If you do that, I believe you could remove 
the dynamic_cast check above and let the MIPS_CPU macro assert, because the link cannot be 
set with an incorrect type.


r~