Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] hw/arm: Add Arm Enterprise machine type

[Andrew Jones]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:56:22PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 26 July 2018 at 12:52, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 26 July 2018 at 11:46, Andrew Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> i440fx and q35 are specific machine types. 'sbsa' is a generic machine
> >> type that conforms to the SBSA specification. If you weren't trying to
> >> memory map AHCI and EHCI controllers, or if memory mapped AHCI and EHCI
> >> controllers were mandated in the SBSA spec, then there wouldn't be
> >> anything to discuss. But that's not the case. You're attempting to
> >> hard code one instance of a generic class of SBSA machines, but then
> >> just call it 'sbsa'.
> >
> > Modelling a 'generic SBSA machine' is not the goal here (I'm
> > not sure that's even possible or useful), so let's just
> > stipulate that we'll call the machine type something else
> > and move on ?
> >
> 
> Fine with me. Care to suggest a name? :-)
>

Also fine by me, but I'm not going to suggest the name. I fear the
backlash I'd receive after this mail thread!