Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Add phenom CPU descriptor

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Paul Brook wrote:
> > > Although this is a bit different.  We aren't actually emulating a
> > > phenom.  We're just taking what we have and calling it a phenom.  I
> > > suspect there's going to be a desire to call whatever we emulate
> > > arbitrary things.
> >
> > I don't think we're likely to want the big list of cpus anyway.
> 
> Argh. I got that completely wrong.I mean we *are* likely to want a
> big list of cpus anyway. If done properly it should be fairly easy
> to maintain.  e.g. instead of missing out unimplemented feature
> flags in each cpu, add them all, then have qemu mask out the ones it
> doesn't implement.

That's an excellent idea.  The CPU list is a bit of historical
documentation of real CPU capabilities among other things, and not all
easy to verify, so having it be correct, and then QEMU masking things
out, sounds good to me.

-- Jamie