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Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:18:34 +0100
From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal: option for CPU selection
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OK. Except that I would prefer "-cpu" instead of "-C".

Regards,

Fabrice.

J. Mayer wrote:
> Here's a patch that allow the user to specify a specific CPU
> model/variant on the command line.
> This makes different CPU tests less painfull, as the current code need a
> recompilation for this.
> This patch only has an actual effect when using the PowerPC target, as I
> don't want to break other targets, but would be imho easy to implement
> for all targets.
> It just adds a -C <cpu_model> facultative option to the command line and
> a new parameter to the machine->init callback. A machine can then ignore
> this parameter or tune the emulated CPU based on the given CPU model.
> 
> Any comments will be welcome but I'd like to insist that such an option
> would really be useful, at least for testing purposes.