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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:45:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Split non-TCG bits out of exec.c
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

2008/11/14 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>:
> The issue is not disabling TCG at runtime.  That's easy enough.  The issue
> is that TCG doesn't exist (and probably won't ever exist) for certain
> architectures like ia64 and s390.  Being forced to build with TCG support
> makes having QEMU + KVM not possible on these platforms even though they
> both support KVM.

I mean either compile-time or run-time: assuming that each QEMUAccel
implementation is a bunch of files + a struct with pointers in the
common code, it should make turning on/off each emulator easy.

Cheers