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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/8] removal of tci (tcg interpreter)
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To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= <f4bug@amsat.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, =?UTF-8?Q?Alex_Benn=c3=a9e?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, "Emilio G . Cota" <cota@braap.org>, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>



On 29/06/2017 17:46, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> TCI is enabled only with a specific configure argument if your machine
>> is not supported by TCG.  This would break _build_ configurations, not
>> user configurations.  It's a remote possibility that users are building
>> their own QEMU, with TCI enabled, to work around a TCG bug.  So we can
>> be more speedy in removing the code.
> You never know ... it's unlikely, but there might be people around who
> run configure with "--enable-tcg-interpreter" on purpose.

And they have never reported a bug? :)  But I agree it's not a big deal.
 Richard should decide.

Paolo

> And why the
> hurry for removing this? It's been around in the current shape since
> years, so waiting for two more releases does not hurt, does it?