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

[Andreas Färber]

Am 17.04.2012 22:51, schrieb Blue Swirl:
> 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

That assumes end users actually launch it from the command line, as
opposed to some Eclipse UI (e.g., Sourcery CodeBench).

Anyhow, we currently don't have a way to detect whether we're using a
board because it's the default or due to an explicit -M argument.

Andreas

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