Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] hw/arm: Add Arm Enterprise machine type

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 26 July 2018 at 12:52, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 26 July 2018 at 11:46, Andrew Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
>> i440fx and q35 are specific machine types. 'sbsa' is a generic machine
>> type that conforms to the SBSA specification. If you weren't trying to
>> memory map AHCI and EHCI controllers, or if memory mapped AHCI and EHCI
>> controllers were mandated in the SBSA spec, then there wouldn't be
>> anything to discuss. But that's not the case. You're attempting to
>> hard code one instance of a generic class of SBSA machines, but then
>> just call it 'sbsa'.
>
> Modelling a 'generic SBSA machine' is not the goal here (I'm
> not sure that's even possible or useful), so let's just
> stipulate that we'll call the machine type something else
> and move on ?
>

Fine with me. Care to suggest a name? :-)