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+# possible arch values are arm aarch64 mips mipsel mips64 mips64el ppc ppc64 ppc64abi32
+# ppcemb armeb alpha sparc32plus i386 x86_64 cris m68k microblaze sparc sparc32
+# sparc32plus
+
+def get_qemu_target_list(d):
+    import bb
+    archs = d.getVar('QEMU_TARGETS', True).split()
+    tos = d.getVar('HOST_OS', True)
+    softmmuonly = ""
+    for arch in ['mips64', 'mips64el', 'ppcemb']:
+        if arch in archs:
+            softmmuonly += arch + "-softmmu,"
+            archs.remove(arch)
+    linuxuseronly = ""
+    for arch in ['armeb', 'alpha', 'ppc64abi32', 'sparc32plus']:
+        if arch in archs:
+            linuxuseronly += arch + "-linux-user,"
+            archs.remove(arch)
+    if 'linux' not in tos:
+        return softmmuonly + ''.join([arch + "-softmmu" + "," for arch in archs]).rstrip(',')
+    return softmmuonly + linuxuseronly + ''.join([arch + "-linux-user" + "," + arch + "-softmmu" + "," for arch in archs]).rstrip(',')
+