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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/15] configure: add the disable-tcg option
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/15] configure: add the disable-tcg option |
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Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:33:35 +0200 |
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On 22.06.2017 08:22, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>> On 21.06.2017 12:19, Yang Zhong wrote:
>>> Add the disable-tcg option into configure and echo CONFIG_TCG=y into
>>> $config_target_mak. The default tcg is enabled for all build. If tcg
>>> is disabled in the build, only i386|x86_64 softmmu option can be disabled,
>>> other softmmu of tagets and users build defaultly enabled the tcg.
>> Why do you want to limit this disablement to x86 only? There are also
>> other architectures that support KVM (ARM, PPC, MIPS), so disabling TCG
>> might be possible there, too. So I think it might be better to check
>> whether KVM is possible instead.
>
> You need to be careful and not use any helper from e.g. KVM or migration
> code. So I would be very surprised if any other architecture compiles
> with --disable-tcg.
OK, fair, but we finally might want to get there, so I think we should
allow the parameter in the configure script for other architectures,
too, and then fix the bugs once we can try it out.
Thomas
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/15] vl: add CONFIG_TCG for tcg related code, Yang Zhong, 2017/06/21
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/15] tcg: change tcg_enabled(), Yang Zhong, 2017/06/21
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/15] tcg: move page_size_init() function, Yang Zhong, 2017/06/21
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/15] tcg: tcg_handle_interrupt() function, Yang Zhong, 2017/06/21