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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:21:44 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add definitions for current cpu models..
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To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>, "Przywara,
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On 01/19/2010 06:15 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> * 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} ...
>    

Then we should key off of family and model.

So -cpu AMD_Family_10h

or something like that.  At least that is discoverable by a user.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori