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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "John Rigby" <john.rigby@linaro.org>,
	patches@linaro.org, qemu-trivial@nongnu.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Libvirt <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:29:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5b7hyuo.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA90AJyBNtNxRa45y3zfWCj8tAq5jsqoDLmDTAZT0DK=2g@mail.gmail.com>

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 22 May 2013 14:15, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
>>> You
>>> don't need to know what targets were supported in the version that you
>>> compiled from.  Only one target is supported in this executable
>>> anyway.
>>
>> It seems useful to me.  One day we may support multiple targets per
>> executable.
>
> Why would you care about which architectures the executable supports?
> What you actually want to know is which machine models are supported;
> whether board foo happens to be ARM or PPC isn't really very interesting
> IMHO.

That's a very good point.  It was the libvirt folks that requested
this.  Perhaps they can shed some light on the logic?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> -- PMM



WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "John Rigby" <john.rigby@linaro.org>,
	patches@linaro.org, qemu-trivial@nongnu.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Libvirt <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:29:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5b7hyuo.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA90AJyBNtNxRa45y3zfWCj8tAq5jsqoDLmDTAZT0DK=2g@mail.gmail.com>

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 22 May 2013 14:15, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
>>> You
>>> don't need to know what targets were supported in the version that you
>>> compiled from.  Only one target is supported in this executable
>>> anyway.
>>
>> It seems useful to me.  One day we may support multiple targets per
>> executable.
>
> Why would you care about which architectures the executable supports?
> What you actually want to know is which machine models are supported;
> whether board foo happens to be ARM or PPC isn't really very interesting
> IMHO.

That's a very good point.  It was the libvirt folks that requested
this.  Perhaps they can shed some light on the logic?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> -- PMM

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-22 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-20 16:21 [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line Peter Maydell
2013-05-20 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2013-05-20 16:35 ` [Qemu-trivial] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-20 16:35   ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-20 16:38   ` [Qemu-trivial] " Peter Maydell
2013-05-20 16:38     ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2013-05-20 17:14     ` [Qemu-trivial] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-20 17:14       ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 13:15   ` [Qemu-trivial] " Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 13:15     ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 13:50     ` [Qemu-trivial] " Andreas Färber
2013-05-22 13:50       ` Andreas Färber
2013-05-22 14:28       ` [Qemu-trivial] " Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 14:28         ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 14:34         ` [Qemu-devel] New targets (was: [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line) Andreas Färber
2013-05-22 14:48           ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 15:33             ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-22 16:10               ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 13:51     ` [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line Peter Maydell
2013-05-22 13:51       ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-22 14:29       ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2013-05-22 14:29         ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 14:38         ` [Qemu-trivial] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 14:38           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-24 21:38         ` [Qemu-trivial] [libvirt] " Eric Blake
2013-05-24 21:38           ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Eric Blake
2013-05-25  9:18           ` [Qemu-trivial] [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2013-05-25  9:18             ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Peter Maydell
2013-05-25 12:31             ` [Qemu-trivial] " Andreas Färber
2013-05-25 12:31               ` Andreas Färber
2013-05-20 16:41 ` [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] " Eric Blake
2013-05-20 16:41   ` Eric Blake
2013-05-20 16:47   ` [Qemu-trivial] " Peter Maydell
2013-05-20 16:47     ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-20 16:57     ` [Qemu-trivial] " Eric Blake
2013-05-20 16:57       ` Eric Blake
2013-05-20 17:05       ` [Qemu-trivial] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-20 17:05         ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 13:12 ` [Qemu-trivial] " Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 13:12   ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 13:38   ` [Qemu-trivial] " Peter Maydell
2013-05-22 13:38     ` Peter Maydell

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