Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH v3] Generalize -machine command line option

[Peter Maydell]

On 25 July 2011 13:18, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2011-07-25 14:05, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> In fact having thought about it a bit I'm going to go further
>> and say that the whole idea of a "default machine" is a rather
>> x86-centric idea -- most architectures don't really have a
>> single machine type that's used by just about everybody,
>> always has been, and isn't likely to become obsolete in the
>> future. So if we're reworking the command line API to
>> supersede "-M" then we shouldn't have a default at all.
>
> Then you may want to drop is_default = 1 from integratorcp and prepare
> the main loop to face a NULL machine.

We can't change the default machine for -M, that would break
backwards compatibility. All we can do is avoid having a notion
of "default machine" in new command line syntax.

-- PMM