Re: [Qemu-arm] Use of -machine when running via qemu-system-arm

[Peter Maydell]

On 9 April 2018 at 14:43, Ajay Garg <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Well, the wiki text is the best explanation I have; perhaps
you could suggest what part of it is confusing, and we could
improve it?

thanks
-- PMM