Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add definitions for current cpu models..

[Anthony Liguori]

On 01/19/2010 06:15 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Anthony Liguori (address@hidden) wrote:
>    
> > On 01/19/2010 02:03 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> >      
> > > * Anthony Liguori (address@hidden) wrote:
> > >
> > >        
> > > > I'm very much against having -cpu Nehalem.  The whole point of this is
> > > > to make things easier for a user and for most of the users I've
> > > > encountered, -cpu Nehalem is just as obscure as -cpu
> > > > qemu64,-sse3,+vmx,...
> > > >
> > > >          
> > > What name will these users know?  FWIW, it makes sense to me as it is.
> > >        
> > Whatever is in /proc/cpuinfo.
> >      
> That doesn't exactly generalize to families w/ similar cpuid features.
>
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) {E,L,X}{74,55}**
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 {Duo,Quad,Extreme} ...
>    

Then we should key off of family and model.

So -cpu AMD_Family_10h

or something like that.  At least that is discoverable by a user.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori