Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc32 machine specific maximums

[Andreas Färber]

Am 04.12.2007 um 00:53 schrieb Thiemo Seufer:

> Blue Swirl wrote:
> > On 12/3/07, Robert Reif <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > This patch sets the maximum number of CPUs and memory to what is
> > > supported by the actual hardware.
> >
> > While it's not historically accurate to emulate a Sparcstation 5 with
> > 16 CPUs and 2 gigabytes of memory, it doesn't break anything to have
> > this capability.
>
> Are you sure? OS kernels, let alone Model-specific firmware images,
> may well have intimate knowledge about the specific machine layout.
>
> Implementing a different machine than the one announced sounds like
> bad idea to me, especially when modelling an additional hypothetical
> machine variant in QEMU is so cheap to implement.

Unfortunately such fprintf messages to stderr are only visible on the  
console and not in graphical frontends. If you decide to place more of  
those abort messages, could you please consider using macros so they  
can be easily overridden with message boxes or some other notification  
mechanism?

Andreas