Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets

[Blue Swirl]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 20:27, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 17 April 2012 21:19, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 21:58, Max Filippov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> What is the use case of the default board?
>>
>> If an architecture has multiple boards, the default board can be used
>> without using -M option.
>
> Unless the Xtensa architecture has a particular board which
> is and will *always* be a primary choice for anybody using it
> (as "pc" is for x86) I'd recommend against setting a default
> board for it, because once you set one you can never change
> it without breaking command-line compatibility for users.

IIRC we have changed the default board for PPC from oldworld to newworld model.

Xtensa is the only architecture out of 14 which does not have a default board.

>
> ARM has a default board set, which is unfortunate because it's
> hardware that nobody uses now, so the QEMU default setting
> mostly serves to trip up users who try to run a kernel for
> some other machine on it by mistake.

Then change it.

>
> -- PMM