On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 20:27, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 17 April 2012 21:19, Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 21:58, Max Filippov <jcmvb...@gmail.com> 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.
IIRC we have changed the default board for PPC from oldworld to newworld model. Xtensa is the only architecture out of 14 which does not have a default board. > > 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. > > -- PMM
