On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 11:00, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 10:40, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: > > > What about "-accel any" or "-accel fastest" or something similar? > > > > "any" is just ambiguous, "fastest" is just begging for me to find a > > micro-benchmark that TCG outperforms on ;-) > > > > "-accel default" could be considered to have vibes of Do The Right > > Thing (tm) and could in time actually become so! > > That would be a weird choice, because it's not actually the default! > > The obvious analogy here is with -cpu best, -machine gic-version=best, > etc -- use "best". You can argue that it's maybe not got the ideal > set of connotations, but I think that trying to be consistent about > the name we use for "do the thing that seems to be the most > sensible for the host/etc that we've got" is worthwhile.
This is actually a load of rubbish, because the cpu option is 'max', not 'best'. I still like consistency, though :-) -- PMM
