Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] target-mips: Add n32/n64 configuration files

[Peter Maydell]

On 10 December 2014 at 22:14, Maciej W. Rozycki <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Peter Maydell wrote:

>> >  As noted in 0/3 ideally we'd handle all ELF flavours with a single
>> > binary.  Then we could have two system configurations only, mips|mipsel (a
>> > limited configuration for 32-bit host optimisation) and mips64|mips64el (a
>> > full configuration).
>>
>> I think this is the right way to go.
>
>  Except that apart from coming to an agreement someone has to make it
> happen yet. ;)

Ah, but I'm happy with the current state of the codebase...

>> > The changes I propose here do not preclude it from happening in
>> > the future, they are merely intended to bring some order to what we have
>> > now.
>>
>> The problem is that adding new QEMU executables is effectively
>> extending our user-facing interface. We really shouldn't do that
>> in the wrong way if we can avoid it (it's hard to undo later
>> without breaking peoples' setups).
>
>  Fair enough, I want to move forward though.  Would it make you happy if I
> dropped the new -softmmu configs and made mipsn32|mipsn32el and
> mipsn64|mipsn64el only accept -user configs instead (failing gracefully
> rather than abruptly as mipsn32|mipsn32el do now)?

Er, I'm not sure what you mean there. Trying a softmmu config for
mipsn32 or mipsn32el fails gracefully already:

manooth$ (cd build/mips && ../../configure --target-list=mipsn32-softmmu)

ERROR: Unknown target name 'mipsn32-softmmu'

thanks
-- PMM