From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45281) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dS0tJ-0006Vc-4K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 08:55:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dS0tF-0006HZ-2C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 08:55:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dS0tE-0006HH-R1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 08:55:44 -0400 References: <1499076743-15477-1-git-send-email-yang.zhong@intel.com> <1499076743-15477-2-git-send-email-yang.zhong@intel.com> <20170703102043.GE5663@redhat.com> <68cbc479-3707-cdab-4dcd-d055b02ede7d@redhat.com> <20170703103340.GF5663@redhat.com> <650bf1e9-ba8c-c7a5-9e48-94dc970523d6@redhat.com> <20170703120945.GG5663@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 14:55:40 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170703120945.GG5663@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/15] configure: add the disable-tcg option List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: Yang Zhong , rth@twiddle.net, thuth@redhat.com, anthony.xu@intel.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com On 03/07/2017 14:09, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> It would leave you with a tools-only build; whether that's a good idea, >> it's another story. I think it's acceptable, but others may disagree. > If you do 'configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --disable-tcg' on a > non-x86 host I would be surprised to find x86_64-softmmu not built. > IMHO if you explicitly request system emulators and its not posisble > to build then, an error should be report, rather than silently ignoring > the request. Technically you could build a qtest-only emulator, but I don't think _that_ is a good idea (and it's not what the patch does). Paolo