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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] tci rewrite
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 05/13/2014 03:12 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Hosts we care about enough to want to run QEMU really slowly
> but not enough to write a TCG backend for?

A fair point.  I suppose we should port the x86 backend to win64 at some point...

> I think possibly also some people read the configure help
> and don't realise that --enable-tcg-interpreter actually means
> --disable-sensible-tcg-backend...

Ah, yeah, there's that.  If we decide to keep tci, perhaps we should rename the
option to --disable-tcg-native?


r~