Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] null-machine: Add support for the "-kernel" parameter

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 27.02.2017 19:00, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 27 February 2017 at 17:57, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>> And I still think it does not really make sense to introduce a
>> per-architecture hook here - let me cite my reply to Peter's mail a
>> couple of mails later in that e-mail thread:
>>
>> 'The -kernel parameter is not just only dependent on the target
>> architecture, it is even dependent on the machine type, e.g. on ppc it
>> is quite different between embedded (e500.c) and server (spapr.c)
>> variants. So an arch-specific hook might not make too much sense and
>> using the generic loader is likely the best we can do - if that does not
>> work, you likely can't use the "none" machine anyway.'
>>
>> So as far as I can see, we should either go with the generic loader
>> here, or print out an error message if the user tries to run QEMU with
>> the "-kernel" parameter.
> 
> I would go for "don't support -kernel". The fundamental problem
> with -kernel is that it tries to be a magic "do what I mean"
> command line argument. Adding extra magic is going to make things
> worse, not better.

OK, fair, then I'll try to come up with a patch that prints out an error
message instead if the user tries to use the "-kernel" parameter there...

 Thomas