Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 12/3/07, Robert Reif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This patch sets the maximum number of CPUs and memory to what is
> > supported by the actual hardware.
> 
> While it's not historically accurate to emulate a Sparcstation 5 with
> 16 CPUs and 2 gigabytes of memory, it doesn't break anything to have
> this capability.

Are you sure? OS kernels, let alone Model-specific firmware images,
may well have intimate knowledge about the specific machine layout.

Implementing a different machine than the one announced sounds like
bad idea to me, especially when modelling an additional hypothetical
machine variant in QEMU is so cheap to implement.


Thiemo


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