Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/7] Add Rust support, implement ARM PL011

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 06:55:40PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il lun 8 lug 2024, 18:33 Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> ha
> scritto:
> 
> > This series is still missing changes to enable build on all targets
> > during CI, including cross-compiles, to prove that we're doing the
> > correct thing on all our targetted platforms. That's a must have
> > before considering it suitable for merge.
> >
> 
> But we're not—in particular it's still using several features not in all
> supported distros.

That's exactly why I suggest its a pre-requisite for merging
this. Unless we're able to demonstrate that we can enable
Rust on all our CI platforms, the benefits of Rust will
not be realized in QEMU, and we'll have never ending debates
about whether each given feature needs to be in C or Rust.


> I also believe we should default to enabling rust toolchain by
> > default in configure, and require and explicit --without-rust
> > to disable it, *despite* it not technically being a mandatory
> > feature....yet.
> >
> 
> I guess the detection could be done, but actually enabling the build part
> needs to wait until the minimum supported version is low enough.

With regards,
Daniel
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