Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] s390x/cpumodel: Introduce "best" model variants

[David Hildenbrand]

On 08.11.19 20:10, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:02:28PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 12:46, David Hildenbrand <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > There is a small but important difference between "max"/"host" and
> > > "best". Max really means "all features", including deprecated ones.
> > > "best", however, can disable experimental or deprecated features. Or any
> > > other features we don't want to be enabled when somebody selects a model
> > > manually.
>
> On x86, this is implemented by "host".  "max" gives you the full
> set of features that can be enabled by the user.  "host" gives
> you a reasonable set of features you will want to see enabled by
> default when the user says "use the host CPU".

Interesting. Maybe for s390x we might want to split host/max at one 
time, too. E.g., exclude deprecated features from "host". Thanks for 
that info.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb