Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-arm: fix build on fedora

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 01:41:50PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 23 December 2013 13:32, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
> > Am 23.12.2013 13:59, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> >> On 23 December 2013 12:50, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> Il 23/12/2013 13:37, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> >>>> At a minimum, if we take this approach we should add TODO comments
> >>>> to the effect that the NULL terminator and the if() can be removed
> >>>> when the first real AArch64 CPU is added.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think I'd rather put the if (!info->name) continue into the function
> >>>> which is doing the looping over the array.
> >>> Or just change the termination condition from a check on the array size
> >>> to one on info->name.
> >> That would take it out of line with the equivalent 32 bit ARM code
> >> (and also moxie and openrisc for what little that's worth) and be
> >> fractionally more tedious to revert later.
> 
> > What about adding a dummy CPU (which can be removed later)?
> 
> That would be user-visible, which seems a bad thing.
> I agree that there aren't any fantastic solutions here;
> I think something more or less like Michael's patch with
> a TODO note so it's easy for me to take it out again when
> I add an actual A57 emulation in a couple of months will
> do. This is just a temporary thing since at the moment we
> only support -cpu any for userspace and -cpu host for KVM.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

OK, ack my patch then? I'll add a comment
/* TODO: remove when we support more CPUs. */