On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 12:52, Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiew...@linaro.org> wrote: > > W dniu 13.07.2023 o 13:44, Peter Maydell pisze: > > > I see this isn't a change in this patch, but given that > > what the user specifies is not "cortex-a8-arm-cpu" but > > "cortex-a8", why do we include the "-arm-cpu" suffix in > > the error messages? It's not valid syntax to say > > "-cpu cortex-a8-arm-cpu", so it's a bit misleading... > > Internally those cpu names are "max-{TYPE_ARM_CPU}" and similar for > other architectures.
Yes; my question is "why are we not using the user-facing string rather than the internal type name?". -- PMM