Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal: option for CPU selection

["J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>]

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 19:18 +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> OK. Except that I would prefer "-cpu" instead of "-C".

OK; I choosed -C for "symetry" with the machine selection option (-M)
but -cpu is OK for me...

> J. Mayer wrote:
> > Here's a patch that allow the user to specify a specific CPU
> > model/variant on the command line.
> > This makes different CPU tests less painfull, as the current code need a
> > recompilation for this.
> > This patch only has an actual effect when using the PowerPC target, as I
> > don't want to break other targets, but would be imho easy to implement
> > for all targets.
> > It just adds a -C <cpu_model> facultative option to the command line and
> > a new parameter to the machine->init callback. A machine can then ignore
> > this parameter or tune the emulated CPU based on the given CPU model.
> > 
> > Any comments will be welcome but I'd like to insist that such an option
> > would really be useful, at least for testing purposes.

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J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
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