Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] configure: Add RISC-V host support

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 07:37:55PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 30 July 2018 at 19:20, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Before this patch:
> >
> > $ ./configure
> >
> > ERROR: Unsupported CPU = riscv64, try --enable-tcg-interpreter
> >
> > $ ./configure --enable-tcg-interpreter
> > Unsupported CPU = riscv64, will use TCG with TCI (experimental)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > WARNING: SUPPORT FOR THIS HOST CPU WILL GO AWAY IN FUTURE RELEASES!
> 
> 
> > It is unlikely the RISC-V port goes away in the next future releases :)
> 
> ...but it is not supported as a *host* CPU.
> 
> We should fix this somewhat nonsensical error message by
> completing the deprecate-and-drop cycle for this bit of
> configure, ie by outright rejecting attempts to build on
> host CPU types we don't recognize and support, the same
> way we do with unrecognized host OS types.

Do you mean to imply that we should drop  the TCG intepreter too, or do
you consider that something that makes it a supported host CPU ?  TCG
intepretor essentially makes any host supportable, if we keep it.


Regards,
Daniel
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