Re: [PATCH 0/5] Sparc CPU naming and help text improvements

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 18/04/2024 21:08, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> On 15/04/2024 08:26, Thomas Huth wrote:
>
> > On 07/03/2024 18.43, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > The Sparc CPU naming and the corresponding help text is somewhat
> > > confusing for the users. We should avoid spaces in the Names and
> > > provide clear information to the users what can be passed to the
> > > "-cpu" option.
> > > While we're at it, also remove the "+" from two of the CPU names
> > > since this character is now not allowed in device names anymore
> > > (and was worked around with an ugly hack in qom/object.c so far).
> > >
> > > Thomas Huth (5):
> > >    target/sparc/cpu: Rename the CPU models with a "+" in their names
> > >    target/sparc/cpu: Avoid spaces by default in the CPU names
> > >    target/sparc/cpu: Improve the CPU help text
> > >    docs/system/target-sparc: Improve the Sparc documentation
> > >    docs/about: Deprecate the old "UltraSparc" CPU names that contain a
> > >      "+"
> >
> > Ping!
> >
> > Mark, Aryom, could you please comment on this patch series, too?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >   Thomas
>
> Done! I didn't realise that it was only patches 1 and 2 that were still outstanding 
> until I tested the series, so I've replied to those separately.

Oops actually that's not quite right: looks like my git-am failed on patch 3 because 
it was already applied, but the remaining 2 patches are still relevant. I've just 
replied to those too.


ATB,

Mark.