Stefan Weil wrote: > Today, QEMU allows machine selection using command line option -M. > Without this option, it will always take the first machine > for the given target architecture. > > With my patch, QEMU first parses the name of the executable. > The string after the last '-' is interpreted as machine name. > If this machine does not exist, the first machine is taken, > so the new QEMU remains compatible with the old behaviour. > > With this patch, an installation might link e.g. qemu-system-arm > to qemu-system-arm-integratorcp926, and running > qemu-system-arm-integratorcp926 > will automatically select machine integratorcp926. > > My goal is a MIPS emulation which supports big and little endian mode > in the same executable (like the real hardware). qemu-system-mipsel > would be a symbolic link to qemu-system-mips and enable little endian mode.
A similiar approach was abandoned years ago in the case of GNU ls/dir/vdir due to continuous trouble on non-posix systems, and the potential of unexpected results with this aproach. (E.g. what happens if somebody adds a symlink qemu-default -> qemu-system-mipsel). Thiemo _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
