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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:15:01 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add definitions for current cpu models..
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* Anthony Liguori (anthony@codemonkey.ws) wrote:
> On 01/19/2010 02:03 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
>> * Anthony Liguori (anthony@codemonkey.ws) wrote:
>>    
>>> I'm very much against having -cpu Nehalem.  The whole point of this is
>>> to make things easier for a user and for most of the users I've
>>> encountered, -cpu Nehalem is just as obscure as -cpu
>>> qemu64,-sse3,+vmx,...
>>>      
>> What name will these users know?  FWIW, it makes sense to me as it is.
>
> Whatever is in /proc/cpuinfo.

That doesn't exactly generalize to families w/ similar cpuid features.

Intel(R) Xeon(R) {E,L,X}{74,55}**
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 {Duo,Quad,Extreme} ...

thanks,
-chris