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

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 April 2012 21:51, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 20:35, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 17 April 2012 21:31, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 20:27, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> As I say, I don't want to break command line compatibility.
>
> v1.1: print a warning about using deprecated board, suggest -M integratorcp
> v1.2: change default board, when default board is used, print a notice
> that it's now -M z2, suggest -M integratorcp for old geezers
> v1.3: remove notice

If I were going to change, I'd switch to "no default board", because
there is no single right choice for everybody in the ARM world.

-- PMM