From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzL6i-0002WS-1V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:53:48 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzL6g-0002TC-DC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:53:47 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzL6f-0002Sn-RD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:53:45 -0500 Received: from relay01.mx.bawue.net ([193.7.176.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzL6f-0001Ay-BN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:53:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:53:41 +0000 From: Thiemo Seufer Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums Message-ID: <20071203235341.GK617@networkno.de> References: <47533BD3.4000606@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Blue Swirl wrote: > On 12/3/07, Robert Reif 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