On 20 January 2012 18:27, Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:57:29PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: >> I wonder if we should be passing in anything-except-minus-1, >> since if you pass -1 and no DT then the kernel will fail >> silently, whereas if you pass something else and no DT the >> kernel will complain about the mismatch. > > Alternately, we can make the kernel always complain about machine type > ~0, which is probably safer anyway.
That sounds like a good idea to me. -- PMM