Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] Latest qemu tcg breakage

[Hollis B. <ho...@us...>]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:35 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jerone Young wrote:
> > So upstream qemu is being pervasive about changes with TCG, starting to
> > place tcg only functions in exec.c . I've spun a quick patch that fixes
> > things for PowerPC when building qemu. But we need to try and isolate
> > TCG in upstream qemu as it is starting to leak, and I'm not sure of a
> > good way to fix it as there is no CONFIG defined for tcg  currently.
> >
> > Just something to keep in mind.
> >   
> 
> Now that TCG supports PPC, shouldn't ya'll be able to drop 
> --disable-cpu-emulation.  I believe that will simultaneously fix your 
> problem and reduce the difference between upstream QEMU.

Unfortunately, dropping --disable-cpu-emulation would create a gcc3
dependency for us, which would suck. (Qemu still uses dyngen for
PowerPC, and it does still require gcc3.)

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center