Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 0/2] Clean up the ppc default configs

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 03:42:09PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 15.01.2018 14:01, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 15 January 2018 at 09:30, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> (off-topic question: Do we still need a separate ppcemb-softmmu nowadays?
> >> It seemed to be useful 10 years ago when everybody was doing KVM on
> >> embedded PPC, but these days seem to be pretty much over now, so IMHO
> >> just using ppc-softmmu for embedded should be enough nowadays? We could
> >> save quite some compilation- and "make check"-time if we could finally get
> >> rid of ppcemb-softmmu again...)
> > 
> > There are some specific differences guarded by TARGET_PPCEMB, like
> > the way it has a different TARGET_PAGE_BITS value, and some code
> > in target/ppc/kvm.c related to telling KVM about interrupts. You
> > would need to make those all be runtime decisions I assume.
> 
> True ... but while we maybe could turn those into runtime checks, I now
> rather think it's maybe better to go the other way round: Maybe we
> should not include each and everything into ppc64-softmmu, but put the
> embedded stuff only in ppcemb-softmmu and the 32-bit stuff only in
> ppc-softmmu instead? That way we could, for example, also make the
> output of "-cpu help" and "-device help" a little bit more user friendly...

I tend to agree.

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