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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: jyoung5@us.ibm.com
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	hollisb <hollisb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Qemu powerpc work around
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:29:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B29C6F.3090503@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202852254.16861.6.camel@thinkpad.austin.ibm.com>

Jerone Young wrote:
> So the recent code in qemu cvs has problem powerpc. So what I have done
> is mainly work around this in the build system, by creating
> ppcemb_kvm-sofmmu target. Along with this is a fake-exec.c that stubs
> out the functions that are no longer defined (something done by Anthony
> Liguori attempting to fix qemu_cvs). What do folks think about this
> approach, for us all we really need is a qemu that is not built with tcg
> dependency.
>
>   

Since a target in qemu is a cpu type, how the instructions are executed 
(kvm, kqemu, dyngen, or tcg) shouldn't come into it.  Instead we can 
have a --without-cpu-emulation or --no-tcg which would simply disable 
those parts.

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-12 21:37 [RFC] Qemu powerpc work around Jerone Young
2008-02-12 21:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-12 21:53   ` Jerone Young
2008-02-12 22:03     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-12 22:50       ` Jerone Young
2008-02-13  0:47         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-13  7:29 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-02-13 17:39   ` Jerone Young
2008-02-13 18:55     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-13 19:27       ` [PATCH] " Jerone Young
2008-02-13 20:20         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-13 20:29       ` [RFC] " Jerone Young
2008-02-14  9:33         ` Avi Kivity

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