Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] qapi: add SysEmuTarget to "common.json"

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 06:11:05PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/24/2018 04:45 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > We'll soon need an enumeration type that lists all the softmmu targets
> > that QEMU (the project) supports. Introduce @SysEmuTarget to
> > "common.json".
> > 
> > Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Kashyap Chamarthy <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> > Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>
> > Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> > Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > 
> 
> > +##
> > +{ 'enum' : 'SysEmuTarget',
> > +  'data' : [ 'aarch64', 'alpha', 'arm', 'cris', 'hppa', 'i386', 'lm32',
> > +             'm68k', 'microblaze', 'microblazeel', 'mips', 'mips64',
> > +             'mips64el', 'mipsel', 'moxie', 'nios2', 'or1k', 'ppc',
> > +             'ppc64', 'ppcemb', 'riscv32', 'riscv64', 's390x', 'sh4',
> > +             'sh4eb', 'sparc', 'sparc64', 'tricore', 'unicore32',
> > +             'x86_64', 'xtensa', 'xtensaeb' ] }
> 
> x86_64 doesn't match our typical conventions of preferring '-' over '_';
> also, wikipedia mentions both spellings but under the page name
> 'x86-64'.  Is it worth switching that enum constant?
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

I would not want that - SysEmuTarget is supposed to be correlated with
the qemu-system-$TARGET  binary names and we use qemu-system-x86_64
there.


Regards,
Daniel
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