Re: [PATCH v3 17/19] hw/arm: Automatically select the 'virt' machine on KVM

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 21:06, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 16:08, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> > When building a KVM-only QEMU, the 'virt' machine is a good
> > default :)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  hw/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/arm/Kconfig b/hw/arm/Kconfig
> > index d0903d8544..8e801cd15f 100644
> > --- a/hw/arm/Kconfig
> > +++ b/hw/arm/Kconfig
> > @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
> >  config ARM_VIRT
> >      bool
> > +    default y if KVM
> >      imply PCI_DEVICES
> >      imply TEST_DEVICES
> >      imply VFIO_AMD_XGBE
>
> What does this actually do ? Why should the choice of
> accelerator affect what boards we pull in by default?

Put another way, our current default is "build everything",
so "default y if ..." on a board is a no-op...

-- PMM