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Re: [Qemu-arm] Use of -machine when running via qemu-system-arm
From: |
Ajay Garg |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-arm] Use of -machine when running via qemu-system-arm |
Date: |
Mon, 9 Apr 2018 19:13:41 +0530 |
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the reply ..
On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 7:08 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 9 April 2018 at 14:35, Ajay Garg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi All.
>>
>> Not sure if this is purely an ARM-related question, but I will be
>> grateful if someone could point to some literature that explains what
>> difference choosing a machine makes (when we don't need to have any
>> such flag for qemu-system-i386 or qemu-system-x86_64).
>
> Hi; this is a pretty common question, which we talk about on our
> wiki page here:
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/ARM
Yep, had already been through it :)
>
> The underlying reason why you need this on Arm but not on x86
> is that for x86 every single piece of x86 hardware is pretty
> much identical. For Arm (as part of its history in the embedded
> space) the general rule is that every board is different.
Yep, perhaps I am needing a more layman-kinda example-cum-explanation
for this, so would be grateful for some help in this regard.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
--
Regards,
Ajay