Re: [PATCH 00/20] hw/arm: Store the ARM boot info in the machine state

On 13/8/26 17:48, Bin Meng wrote:
> 
> Most ARM board files declare their struct arm_boot_info as a static
> object at file scope (or, occasionally, as a function-local static
> inside the machine init function). arm_load_kernel() stashes a pointer
> to that struct in every CPU and dereferences it from do_cpu_reset() on
> each reset, so the boot info conceptually belongs to the machine for the
> lifetime of the VM, not to a static object whose ownership is left
> implicit.
> 
> This is a longstanding leftover pattern: modern machines such as virt,
> raspi and xlnx-zcu102 already keep the boot info in their MachineState
> subclass. This series converts the remaining machines that still use
> a static object, moving the struct into their machine state so that its
> lifetime and ownership match how arm_load_kernel() actually uses it.

I wanted that cleanup since a long time, excellent, thanks Bin!