Re: [PATCH 0/3] hw/arm/virt: Use generic CPU invalidation

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 12:52, Marcin Juszkiewicz
<marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> W dniu 13.07.2023 o 13:44, Peter Maydell pisze:
>
> > I see this isn't a change in this patch, but given that
> > what the user specifies is not "cortex-a8-arm-cpu" but
> > "cortex-a8", why do we include the "-arm-cpu" suffix in
> > the error messages? It's not valid syntax to say
> > "-cpu cortex-a8-arm-cpu", so it's a bit misleading...
>
> Internally those cpu names are "max-{TYPE_ARM_CPU}" and similar for
> other architectures.

Yes; my question is "why are we not using the user-facing
string rather than the internal type name?".

-- PMM