On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 08:37, Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnog...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 9:24 AM Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > > > I wonder if we should put 0x51 (ascii 'Q') in the PARTNUM field; > > > then if somebody really needs to distinguish QEMU from random > > > other software-models they have a way to do it. > > > > Q is reserved for Qualcomm - It would be nice if ARM could assign QEMU a > > code but I suspect that's not part of the business model. > > That was my reaction at first too, but that Q is reserved for the > Implementer field, while Peter is proposing to put it in the PartNum > field :-)
Yes; I should have been a bit clearer... This is totally ad-hoc, of course, and I have no idea what other models might be using IMPLEMENTER==0, but it seems harmless enough and it might come in useful someday. thanks -- PMM
