On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:21:44AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/19/2010 06:15 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> >* Anthony Liguori ([email protected]) wrote:
> >>On 01/19/2010 02:03 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> >>>* Anthony Liguori ([email protected]) 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.
> >>Whatever is in /proc/cpuinfo.
> >That doesn't exactly generalize to families w/ similar cpuid features.
> >
> >Intel(R) Xeon(R) {E,L,X}{74,55}**
> >Intel(R) Core(TM)2 {Duo,Quad,Extreme} ...
>
> Then we should key off of family and model.
>
> So -cpu AMD_Family_10h
>
> or something like that. At least that is discoverable by a user.
>
Or use CPU price/year as a distinguisher. -cpu Intel_300$_2005 will give
you Intel cpus that cost 300$ in 2005.
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Gleb.
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