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

[Chris Wright]

* Jamie Lokier (address@hidden) wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 2001, 2005, 2008, 2010 :-)

Heh, sadly not far from the truth I bet ;-)  Flip side, if you deploy
the sekrit decoder ring at ark.intel.com, the Xeon® + number seems
equally obscure.  Seems we'll never make 'em all happy.

thanks,
-chris