On 20 November 2014 12:34, Liviu Ionescu <i...@livius.net> wrote:
>
> On 20 Nov 2014, at 14:29, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>>> - if (!kernel_filename && !qtest_enabled()) {
>>> + if (!kernel_filename && !qtest_enabled() && !with_gdb) {
>>> fprintf(stderr, "Guest image must be specified (using -kernel)\n");
>>> exit(1);
>>> }
>>
>> just delete this entire if() statement. This is how we've handled
>> similar issues with the ARM A profile boards. (Some of the boards
>> still have those checks but that's just because nobody's bothered
>> to fix them yet.)
>
> I'm a bit confused. if not running with gdb, what is the expected
> behaviour if the image is missing?
Same thing as if you start a hardware board with nothing loaded
into the flash. (Probably this means "go into an infinite loop
of taking exceptions".)
-- PMM
