From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"John Rigby" <john.rigby@linaro.org>,
patches@linaro.org, qemu-trivial@nongnu.org,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Libvirt <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 16:38:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519CD863.3080205@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5b7hyuo.fsf@codemonkey.ws>
Il 22/05/2013 16:29, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>
>> On 22 May 2013 14:15, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
>>>> You
>>>> don't need to know what targets were supported in the version that you
>>>> compiled from. Only one target is supported in this executable
>>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> It seems useful to me. One day we may support multiple targets per
>>> executable.
>>
>> Why would you care about which architectures the executable supports?
>> What you actually want to know is which machine models are supported;
>> whether board foo happens to be ARM or PPC isn't really very interesting
>> IMHO.
>
> That's a very good point. It was the libvirt folks that requested
> this. Perhaps they can shed some light on the logic?
There is processor-dependent logic in libvirt, for example the CPUID bits.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-22 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-20 16:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line Peter Maydell
2013-05-20 16:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-20 16:38 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-20 17:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 13:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 13:50 ` Andreas Färber
2013-05-22 14:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 14:34 ` [Qemu-devel] New targets (was: [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line) Andreas Färber
2013-05-22 14:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 15:33 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-22 16:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 13:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line Peter Maydell
2013-05-22 14:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 14:38 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-05-24 21:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Eric Blake
2013-05-25 9:18 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-25 12:31 ` Andreas Färber
2013-05-20 16:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eric Blake
2013-05-20 16:47 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-20 16:57 ` Eric Blake
2013-05-20 17:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 13:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-05-22 13:38 ` Peter Maydell
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