Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com> writes: > On 06/13/2013 01:31:48 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> writes: >> >> > On 17.05.2013, at 09:42, Andreas Färber wrote: >> > >> >> Am 17.05.2013 06:25, schrieb David Gibson: >> >>> Currently, for qemu-system-ppc64, the default machine type is >> 'mac99'. >> >>> Since the mac99 machine is not being actively maintained, and >> shows quite >> >>> a few signs of bitrot, >> >> >> >> Please be more specific than making such general claims in a commit >> >> message! As the default machine it certainly compiles, so where >> are you >> >> seeing bitrot? The DEC bridge cleanup that I once started kind of >> >> depends on the PCI cleanup you recently looked into. >> > >> > The mac99 machine for 64bit is actually worse than anything bitrot >> > could give you. It emulates a machine that in its form never >> possibly >> > could have existed in real hardware, which makes it very fragile and >> > dependent on the guest's mercy to handle this gracefully. >> >> I'll note that we have a CONFIG_PSERIES today. I'd suggest getting >> rid >> of it first before making pseries the default. > > Why?
I believe it's there only because libfdt used to be optional. libfdt is no longer optional. > As long as it's present in the default ppc64 build, you'll have a > default machine. If a user makes a custom config without it, > presumably they know they want to run some other machine, so why do you > need a default? That's fair. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > QEMU has too much mandatory stuff as is. > > -Scott
