On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
- Deprecate the 'raspi4b' machine name, renaming it as 'raspi4b-1g' on 32-bit hosts, 'raspi4b-2g' otherwise. - Add the 'raspi4b-4g' and 'raspi4b-8g' machines, with respectively 4GB and 8GB of DRAM.
IMHO (meaning you can ignore it, just my opinion) if the only difference is the memory size -machine raspi4b -memory 4g would be better user experience than having a lot of different machines. Or if you want to emphasize these are tied to revisions maybe -machine raspi4b,revision=1.4 could be used. You can say that -machine help listing different versions is easier to find but if it's the same machine with different options then this should be a machine option, then you can use -machine raspi4b,help to find the options specific to the machine. Memory size is normally set with -memory so that could also select the revision as a convenience if this is tied to a specific revision.
Regards, BALATON Zoltan
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (7): hw/arm/raspi4b: Declare machine types using DEFINE_TYPES() macro hw/arm/raspi4b: Introduce abstract raspi4-base machine type hw/arm/raspi4b: Split raspi4b_machine_class_init() in two (1g and 2g) hw/arm/raspi4b: Rename as raspi4b-1g / raspi4b-2g, deprecating old name hw/arm/raspi4b: Expose the raspi4b-1g machine on 64-bit hosts hw/arm/raspi4b: Add the raspi4b-4g machine hw/arm/raspi4b: Add the raspi4b-8g machine docs/about/deprecated.rst | 6 +++ hw/arm/raspi4b.c | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
