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Re: [Qemu-arm] [RFC v2 PATCH] hw/arm/virt: makes virt a default machine


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-arm] [RFC v2 PATCH] hw/arm/virt: makes virt a default machine type
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:33:10 +0100

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 23:23, Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I came across this when running the acceptance tests in an aarch64 host.
> The arch-independent tests fail because, in general, they don't set a
> machine type. In order to avoid treating arm targets as special cases
> on avocado_qemu framework I prefered to attempt to promote virt as
> default for ARM emulation. Moreover since it represents a generic hardware
> and its used is broaden advised [1], I found it the right choice.

Not providing a default machine type for Arm is a deliberate
choice: there is no single right answer and the user has
to decide what their preference is. We used to have a default
machine type set, and it caused a lot of user confusion as
they expected Arm to be like x86 where everything will run
fine on the default machine type and it did not, which is
why we switched to not having a default.

thanks
-- PMM



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