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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add definitions for current cpu models..
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:25:08 -0600
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On 01/19/2010 02:03 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Anthony Liguori (anthony@codemonkey.ws) 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.

There is no mention of "Nehalem" in /proc/cpuinfo.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
> thanks,
> -chris
>