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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH v3] Generalize -machine command
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 2011-07-25 14:05, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 25 July 2011 12:48, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> For ARM you absolutely should not be relying on the default
>> machine type (not least because it's an incredibly ancient
>> dev board which nobody uses any more). An ARM kernel is
>> generally fairly specific to the hardware platform being
>> emulated, so you should know which machine you're intending
>> to run on and specify it explicitly.
> 
> In fact having thought about it a bit I'm going to go further
> and say that the whole idea of a "default machine" is a rather
> x86-centric idea -- most architectures don't really have a
> single machine type that's used by just about everybody,
> always has been, and isn't likely to become obsolete in the
> future. So if we're reworking the command line API to
> supersede "-M" then we shouldn't have a default at all.

Then you may want to drop is_default = 1 from integratorcp and prepare
the main loop to face a NULL machine.

Jan

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