On 9 April 2018 at 14:43, Ajay Garg <ajaygargn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 7:08 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > wrote: >> On 9 April 2018 at 14:35, Ajay Garg <ajaygargn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi All. >>> >>> Not sure if this is purely an ARM-related question, but I will be >>> grateful if someone could point to some literature that explains what >>> difference choosing a machine makes (when we don't need to have any >>> such flag for qemu-system-i386 or qemu-system-x86_64). >> >> Hi; this is a pretty common question, which we talk about on our >> wiki page here: >> https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/ARM > > Yep, had already been through it :) > >> >> The underlying reason why you need this on Arm but not on x86 >> is that for x86 every single piece of x86 hardware is pretty >> much identical. For Arm (as part of its history in the embedded >> space) the general rule is that every board is different. > > Yep, perhaps I am needing a more layman-kinda example-cum-explanation > for this, so would be grateful for some help in this regard.
Well, the wiki text is the best explanation I have; perhaps you could suggest what part of it is confusing, and we could improve it? thanks -- PMM
