Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] target-ppc: Change default machine for 64-bit

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 May 2013 06:17, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:36:26PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 14:25 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
>> > Because the pseries machine type is optional (it is only built when libfdt
>> > is available), this can result in a build with no default machine.  In that
>> > case vl.c will print a "No machine found" message.  This seems reasonable,
>> > given that as mentioned, mac99 is unlikely to be a good choice.
>>
>> What happened to the idea of having libfdt source in qemu ? That's a pretty
>> common things with libfdt...
>
> Still floating out there.  There was talk of making it a git
> submodule, but it hasn't happened yet.

No, the patches to make it a git submodule have gone in.
If you configure with --enable-fdt and you don't have a
system fdt then it should now prompt you how to pull
in the submodule.

I'm planning to force --enable-fdt somehow for ARM targets
in 1.6; only reason I didn't for 1.5 is that the libfdt
code went in fairly late in the release cycle and I
figured I'd let it bed in first.

If you're going to make the ppc64 default machine an fdt
one you should probably force fdt for ppc too. (I'd
suggest we forced it on for everything but the x86 folks
would probably complain :-))

thanks
-- PMM