At least CRIS, Microblaze and lm32 are broken on latest git. Things fail with the following message: qemu-system-cris: there is no option group "fsdev"
Under GDB I see a segfault... % gdb --args ~/src/c/qemu/git/build-qemu/cris-softmmu/qemu-system-cris -M axis-dev88 -kernel kimage -serial stdio GNU gdb (Gentoo 7.2 p1) 7.2 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://bugs.gentoo.org/>... Reading symbols from /home/edgar/src/c/qemu/git/build-qemu/cris-softmmu/qemu-system-cris...done. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/edgar/src/c/qemu/git/build-qemu/cris-softmmu/qemu-system-cris -M axis-dev88 -kernel kimage -serial stdio [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] qemu-system-cris: there is no option group "fsdev" Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. qemu_opts_foreach (list=0x0, func=0x4fd210 <fsdev_init_func>, opaque=0x0, abort_on_failure=1) at /home/edgar/src/c/qemu/git/qemu/qemu-option.c:969 969 QTAILQ_FOREACH(opts, &list->head, next) { (gdb) bt #0 qemu_opts_foreach (list=0x0, func=0x4fd210 <fsdev_init_func>, opaque=0x0, abort_on_failure=1) at /home/edgar/src/c/qemu/git/qemu/qemu-option.c:969 #1 0x00000000004ff05d in main (argc=7, argv=0x7fffffffdc28, envp=<value optimized out>) at /home/edgar/src/c/qemu/git/qemu/vl.c:3015 (gdb) q A debugging session is active. Inferior 1 [process 1473] will be killed. Quit anyway? (y or n) y