On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 at 13:45, Fabiano Rosas <faro...@suse.de> wrote: > > Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> writes: > > > On 1/13/23 06:04, Fabiano Rosas wrote: > >> The cortex-a15 is not present anymore when CONFIG_TCG=n, so use the > >> cortex-a57 as default cpu for KVM. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <faro...@suse.de> > > > > Ideally there would not be a default at all, requiring the command-line > > option to be used. > > We could probably do that now without impact to users, since KVM would > always require a -cpu option due to the current default being > cortex-a15. > > > > > Second choice would be "host", since that's the only value that's actually > > usable (except > > for the off-chance that you're actually running on an a57, which is less > > and less likely > > as time moves on). > > > > I'll have to go around fixing qtest first, either to add -cpu or to add > -accel kvm, otherwise we get: > > The 'host' CPU type can only be used with KVM or HVF
For a CPU type that will work with either KVM or TCG, that would be "max". thanks -- PMM