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

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 April 2012 21:19, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 21:58, Max Filippov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What is the use case of the default board?
>
> If an architecture has multiple boards, the default board can be used
> without using -M option.

Unless the Xtensa architecture has a particular board which
is and will *always* be a primary choice for anybody using it
(as "pc" is for x86) I'd recommend against setting a default
board for it, because once you set one you can never change
it without breaking command-line compatibility for users.

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.

-- PMM