From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1UfA3G-0007LT-Ig for mharc-qemu-trivial@gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:02 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41473) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfA39-0007KX-Ec for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfA34-0008L8-E9 for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:29:55 -0400 Received: from e23smtp09.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.142]:59240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfA33-0008Kp-PB for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:29:50 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp09.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 23 May 2013 11:27:09 +1000 Received: from d23dlp03.au.ibm.com (202.81.31.214) by e23smtp09.au.ibm.com (202.81.31.206) with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted; Thu, 23 May 2013 11:27:07 +1000 Received: from d23relay04.au.ibm.com (d23relay04.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.120]) by d23dlp03.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EAF9357804E; Thu, 23 May 2013 00:29:45 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.97]) by d23relay04.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r4MEFaf423658572; Thu, 23 May 2013 00:15:36 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r4METicV020429; Thu, 23 May 2013 00:29:44 +1000 Received: from titi.na.relay.ibm.com (sig-9-65-241-117.mts.ibm.com [9.65.241.117]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id r4METaFv020285; Thu, 23 May 2013 00:29:38 +1000 From: Anthony Liguori To: Peter Maydell In-Reply-To: References: <1369066884-431-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org> <519A50EE.8040804@redhat.com> <871u8zp34w.fsf@codemonkey.ws> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.15.2+77~g661dcf8 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:29:35 -0500 Message-ID: <87y5b7hyuo.fsf@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13052301-3568-0000-0000-000003A7FA12 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 202.81.31.142 Cc: John Rigby , patches@linaro.org, qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Libvirt , Paolo Bonzini , Andreas =?utf-8?Q?F=C3=A4rber?= Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line X-BeenThere: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 14:30:01 -0000 Peter Maydell writes: > On 22 May 2013 14:15, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Paolo Bonzini 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