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You can currently achieve shared settings via aliasing eg.

- foo: &mysettings
    settings:
      SPAM: eggs
- foo: 
    *mysettings

That said, it would make sense to allow settings in defaults and merge them into scenarios the same way it's already allowed for machine and priority vaues.

it for sure became better , thanks ! but I didn't get why after all settings end up under arch ? and not one level above ?
initially I was thinking about something like :

defaults:
  aarch64:
    machine: aarch64
    priority: 50
  settings:
    DESKTOP: textmode
    EXTRATEST: wicked
    KEEP_GRUB_TIMEOUT: '1'
    VIDEOMODE: text
    WICKED_TCPDUMP: '1'
    VIRTIO_CONSOLE_NUM: '2'
  x86_64:
    machine: 64bit
    priority: 50    

but I need to duplicate variables under each arch ( I know that I can use variables but it was not the point of this ticket ). I see use case which you was trying to cover with having arch specific variables . But is it possible to have settings in two layers ? with the flow that more specific override more generic

sorry looks like identation not working even under code block , but I hope you get idea ?

Remember to make a space before blocks and lists in markdown ;-)

The default settings map to architectures the same way machine and priority do... so what you're suggesting is inconsistent with how the rest of the definition works, since you place a defaults key in place of an architecture. At least I'd be careful to introduce special-cases like that, if for example using aliases you just need two extra lines to do the same.

What one could do though is define a special key that acts as the default, e.g.:

defaults:
  .default: &default
    settings:
      DESKTOP: textmode

  aarch64: *default