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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] hw/arm: Add Arm Enterprise machine
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To: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, qemu-arm <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Radoslaw Biernacki <radoslaw.biernacki@linaro.org>, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 05:05:06PM +0800, Hongbo Zhang wrote:
> On 25 July 2018 at 16:48, Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 <berrange@redhat.com>=
 wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 01:30:52PM +0800, Hongbo Zhang wrote:
> >> For the Aarch64, there is one machine 'virt', it is primarily meant =
to
> >> run on KVM and execute virtualization workloads, but we need an
> >> environment as faithful as possible to physical hardware, for suppor=
ting
> >> firmware and OS development for pysical Aarch64 machines.
> >>
> >> This patch introduces new machine type 'Enterprise' with main featur=
es:
> >
> > The 'enterprise' name is really awful - this is essentially a marketi=
ng
> > term completely devoid of any useful meaning.
> >
> > You had previously called this "sbsa" which IIUC was related to a rea=
l
> > world hardware specification that it was based on. IOW, I think this =
old
> > name was preferrable to calling it "enterprise".
> >
> Thanks for your comments.
> Frankly, I myself prefer to 'sbsa' too, in fact, at the early stage of
> developing, we called this 'enterprise', but later I changed it to
> 'sbsa' until I sent out v1 patch.
>=20
> The work Arm TF and EDK2 porting to this platform needs this name to
> be defined finally.

Why should EDK2 care what the QEMU machine type name is. The machine type
name is purely a QEMU internal tag and shouldn't be visible in the guest
ABI at all IIUC.


Regards,
Daniel
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