Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add definitions for current cpu models..

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 01/21/2010 10:43 AM, john cooper wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
>> On 01/20/2010 07:18 PM, john cooper wrote:
>>      
>>> I can appreciate the concern of wanting to get this
>>> as "correct" as possible.
>>>
>>>        
>> This is the root of the trouble.  At the qemu layer, we try to focus on
>> being correct.
>>
>> Management tools are typically the layer that deals with being "correct".
>>
>> A good compromise is making things user tunable which means that a
>> downstream can make "correctness" decisions without forcing those
>> decisions on upstream.
>>      
> Conceptually I agree with such a malleable approach -- actually
> I prefer it.  I thought however it was too much infrastructure to
> foist on the problem just to add a few more models into the mix.
>    

See list for patches.  I didn't do the cpu bits but it should be very 
obvious how to do that now.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> The only reservation which comes to mind is that of logistics.
> This may ruffle the code some and impact others such as Andre
> who seem to have existing patches relative to the current structure.
> Anyone have strong objections to this approach before I have a
> look at an implementation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -john
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