Re: [RFC v3 01/32] RFC: docs: add supported host CPUs section

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 12:32, Marc-André Lureau
<marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:34 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 13:23, <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>> >
>> > I was looking for such documentation, but couldn't find it.
>>
>> Yes; this is definitely something we should document, and in
>> the build-platforms doc is as good a place as any.
>>
>> > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>> > ---
>> >  docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  meson.build                    |  2 +-
>> >  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst 
>> > b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
>> > index 692323609e..bfe90e574e 100644
>> > --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
>> > +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
>> > @@ -29,6 +29,34 @@ The `Repology`_ site is a useful resource to identify
>> >  currently shipped versions of software in various operating systems,
>> >  though it does not cover all distros listed below.
>> >
>> > +Supported host CPUs
>> > +-------------------
>> > +
>> > +Those host CPUs have a native TCG backend and are regularly tested:
>>
>> This is a list of host architectures, not CPUs.
>
>
> Isn't it CPU architecture we are talking about? (CPU for short in the title)

My point is that "CPU" != "CPU architecture". "CPU" is something
like "Skylake" or "Cortex-A15". "CPU architecture" is "x86-64",
"arm", etc.

>> The table also seems to me to be a bit confusing, because
>> the introductory text suggests it's a list of the TCG
>> support for each architecture, but the table itself lists
>> only the non-TCG accelerators. I think we should just list
>> all the accelerators supported for each host architecture.
>
>
> All the architectures we support (in the list) have proper TCG, right?

Yes.

thanks
-- PMM