Re: [PATCH 1/3 - qemu-kvm stable-1.0] Fix conditional build of various x86 specific bits

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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On 2012-05-23 23:14, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This adds/modifies ifdefs etc. and moves code to make sure that
> x86-specific code doesn't get compiled on non-x86 platforms.
> These changes all relate to code that is in the qemu-kvm tree and
> not in the qemu tree.
> 
> The change from KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP to KVM_IRQCHIP_PIC_MASTER is because
> the KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP symbol is defined on all platforms (though the
> capability only exists on x86), whereas KVM_IRQCHIP_PIC_MASTER is
> only defined on x86.  (If a better symbol exists it could be used
> instead.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> 
> An equivalent of this is already in qemu-kvm master as commit id
> 20ad1def644494f5055d129961d46b050c0a6158

What is the interest of patching qemu-kvm for non-x86? It is not
supposed to be used for this. And the affected bits are history in 1.1
(or 1.2 latest). Are there distros proving QEMU based on qemu-kvm for
non-x86 hosts?

Jan


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