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Cc: John Rigby <john.rigby@linaro.org>, patches@linaro.org, qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Libvirt <libvir-list@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Andreas =?utf-8?Q?F=C3=A4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>

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?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> -- PMM