Re: [Qemu-arm] MPU/MCU vs board setting cpu-type

[Peter Maydell]

On 10 August 2018 at 16:29, James Hanley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Would it make more sense that the MPU/MCU implementation (ie
> stm32f205_soc.c) define the property for the ARM_CPU_TYPE_NAME instead
> of the support board (ie netduino2.c)?
>
> It seems like a chip die version should have that property inherently
> set by its init function since it will always be the same core type
> for that chip die - and for a board, if it includes that chip die in
> the init, then it will incorporate that core type.

Yes, probably -- but we haven't been very consistent in the
past about how exactly we model SoCs where there are several
in the same family that are more-or-less-the-same apart from
the CPU type.

thanks
-- PMM