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List:       qemu-ppc
Subject:    Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove useless architecture prefix from the CPU list
From:       Philippe_Mathieu-Daudé <philmd () linaro ! org>
Date:       2024-04-29 10:26:35
Message-ID: 3de69422-38eb-4fa2-972d-16d5c868ae30 () linaro ! org
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On 22/4/24 10:22, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 22/04/2024 10.03, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 07:46:03AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> Printing an architecture prefix in front of each CPU name is not helpful
>>> at all: It is confusing for the users since they don't know whether they
>>> have to specify these letters for the "-cpu" parameter, too, and it also
>>> takes some precious space in the dense output of the CPU entries. Let's
>>> simply remove those now.
>>
>> Could it be said that this arch prefix is about to finally become useful
>> with Philippe's patches to add a 'qemu-system-any' command covering
>> multiple arches ?
> 
> I don't think so: In that case we'd rather print it once at the 
> beginning of a list ("Available x86 CPUs:") instead of printing it in 
> each and every line.

Yes that is correct. Hopefully we won't have the same CPU name used
by different architectures...

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>


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