Re: [RFC] Qemu powerpc work around

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Jerone Young wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 09:29 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Actually this much much more sensible solution. So I took some time and
> implemented it.
>   

Funny enough, I was thinking the same thing last night :-)

Please move fake-exec.c to target-ppc/fake-exec.c as it contains PPC 
specific code.  Otherwise, this patch is much better!

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


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