On 27.02.2017 19:00, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 27 February 2017 at 17:57, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: >> And I still think it does not really make sense to introduce a >> per-architecture hook here - let me cite my reply to Peter's mail a >> couple of mails later in that e-mail thread: >> >> 'The -kernel parameter is not just only dependent on the target >> architecture, it is even dependent on the machine type, e.g. on ppc it >> is quite different between embedded (e500.c) and server (spapr.c) >> variants. So an arch-specific hook might not make too much sense and >> using the generic loader is likely the best we can do - if that does not >> work, you likely can't use the "none" machine anyway.' >> >> So as far as I can see, we should either go with the generic loader >> here, or print out an error message if the user tries to run QEMU with >> the "-kernel" parameter. > > I would go for "don't support -kernel". The fundamental problem > with -kernel is that it tries to be a magic "do what I mean" > command line argument. Adding extra magic is going to make things > worse, not better.
OK, fair, then I'll try to come up with a patch that prints out an error message instead if the user tries to use the "-kernel" parameter there... Thomas
