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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:16:15 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Feb 8
From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 10 February 2011 07:47, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> So very concretely, I'm suggesting we do the following to target-i386:

> 2) get rid of the entire concept of machines. =C2=A0Creating a i440fx is
> essentially equivalent to creating a bare machine.

Does that make any sense for anything other than target-i386?
The concept of a machine model seems a pretty obvious one
for ARM boards, for instance, and I'm not sure we'd gain much
by having i386 be different to the other architectures...

-- PMM