On 13 November 2012 11:51, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: > Am 12.11.2012 23:33, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: >> In that case, "cpu-any" wouldn't work, either. What about >> "<arch>-cpu-<model>"? > > Fine with me. However, keep in mind the previous approach was used for > command line compatibility: I would like to continue using -cpu > cortex-a9 rather than -cpu arm-cpu-cortex-a9. :)
Yes, we need to maintain the command line names as-is. > If we introduce a more complex command-line-to-class mapping, can't we > drop these ominous "any" CPUs altogether? For my understanding they were > used as wildcard CPUs for *-user. We could do the same by instantiating > a real CPU like "cortex-a15" and possibly enabling some additional > features afterwards. I don't see what that gains us. The easiest way to say "it's a cpu with all the feature bits turned on" is to define it as a cpu with all the feature bits turned on :-) -- PMM
