Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/10] mips64-linux-user: Use MIPS64R2-generic as default cpu.

[Peter Maydell]

On 10 February 2013 18:30, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
> ---
>  linux-user/main.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> I don't actually recall why this patch was in my old tree.  It might
> just have been that I wanted a mips64r2 part for testing and didn't
> want to keep specifying -cpu on the command-line.  OTOH, I don't see
> any reason not to emulate as many ISA extensions as possible by default.

I think a better approach to the "usermode wants to enable all the
ISA extensions we know about" is the '-cpu any' approach used by
several of our targets including ARM, unless there's a reason that
wouldn't work for MIPS too?

-- PMM