Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] tcg/interpreter: Add TCG + interpreter for bytecode

[Anthony Liguori]

On 10/31/2011 05:02 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 31.10.2011 22:38, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > I'll defer to Blue and/or Aurelien here as I don't know enough about TCG to
> > really review this series.
> >
> > But I'd recommend waiting to pull this until after 1.1 opens up. This is the
> > sort of thing that 1) people are likely to actually use and 2) could use a
> > full development cycle of testing to get hardened before showing up in a 
> > release.
> >
> > I'd feel better about pulling this into 1.0 if it was guarded by a configure
> > option and disabled by default just to enforce that it's an experimental 
> > feature.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony Liguori
>
>
> The current version of TCI is only activated with configure
> --enable-tcg-interpreter
> (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-10/msg02509.html),
> so this should be safe for 1.0. And yes, it's still an experimental feature.

Okay, then I really don't have an objection, but would still prefer Blue or 
Aurel to Ack it explicitly.

> It's up to the maintainers of (Linux) distributions when they will add QEMU with
> TCI
> for new hosts which were unsupported by native TCG. It won't work automatically 
> -
> they have to add the configure option for it. I have no access to such hosts for
> testing,
> but offer any help I can give.

Indeed.  It's a good feature to have.  Just thinking about release stability.  I 
don't want to ship a brand new feature as part of the 1.0 release and have 
people have a bad experience due to it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
>
> Stefan Weil