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dev-manual: remove qemu machine name list in runqemu invocation

Message ID 20250311123025.1915242-1-ross.burton@arm.com
State Under Review
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Series dev-manual: remove qemu machine name list in runqemu invocation | expand

Commit Message

Ross Burton March 11, 2025, 12:30 p.m. UTC
This list of "valid" qemu machine names is obsolete and incorrect, so
just remove it as it serves no real purpose.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
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 documentation/dev-manual/qemu.rst | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Quentin Schulz March 13, 2025, 9:41 a.m. UTC | #1
Hi Ross,

On 3/11/25 1:30 PM, Ross Burton via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> This list of "valid" qemu machine names is obsolete and incorrect, so
> just remove it as it serves no real purpose.
> 

Do you have information if this was true at some point and when it 
stopped being true? This would help to know to which release(s) to 
backport this?

Cheers,
Quentin
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diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/qemu.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/qemu.rst
index 9014d75f4..030bd5514 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/qemu.rst
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/qemu.rst
@@ -367,9 +367,6 @@  command line:
 
 -  `VM`: The virtual machine image, which must be a ``.wic.vmdk``
    file. Use this option when you want to boot a ``.wic.vmdk`` image.
-   The image filename you provide must contain one of the following
-   strings: "qemux86-64", "qemux86", "qemuarm", "qemumips64",
-   "qemumips", "qemuppc", or "qemush4".
 
 -  `ROOTFS`: A root filesystem that has one of the following filetype
    extensions: "ext2", "ext3", "ext4", "jffs2", "nfs", or "btrfs". If