Il 22/05/2013 16:29, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell(a)linaro.org> writes:
> On 22 May 2013 14:15, Anthony Liguori <aliguori(a)us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini(a)redhat.com> writes:
>>> You
>>> don't need to know what targets were supported in the version that you
>>> compiled from. Only one target is supported in this executable
>>> anyway.
>>
>> It seems useful to me. One day we may support multiple targets per
>> executable.
>
> Why would you care about which architectures the executable supports?
> What you actually want to know is which machine models are supported;
> whether board foo happens to be ARM or PPC isn't really very interesting
> IMHO.
That's a very good point. It was the libvirt folks that requested
this. Perhaps they can shed some light on the logic?
There is processor-dependent logic in libvirt, for example the CPUID bits.
Paolo