On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 08:43:32PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 24.08.2012 20:05, schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 05:52:29PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >> Not opposed to changing the argument order, but given that we're inches
> >> away from v1.2 (in Hard Freeze), it might be better to first get AREG0
> >> as first argument working for your favorite hosts as a bugfix and then
> >> do any larger optimization for v1.3.
> >
> > It's what I tried to do first, but I don't think it is realistic to use
> > such a code for v1.2, it is complex to support all cases, and thus
> > likely full of bugs. Maybe we should simply disable ARM and MIPS support
> > for this release.
>
> Depends on what you mean with "disable"? Adding an #error would hurt our
> arm build just like earlier the ppc build, and I would hope from my last
> testing that the problems would only affect the AREG0 targets,
> especially not ARM on ARM (or MIPS on MIPS).
>
I mean basically not building qemu-system-{alpha,i386,x86_64,or32,sparc,
sparc64,xtensa,ppc,ppc64} on arm and mips hosts.
> Aborting at runtime, only when really unsupported, would seem better.
What's the point of providing non working binaries, beside getting bug
reports?
>
> I had taken a look at tcg/arm/ shortly after having fixed ppc (seeing
> that there was a similar TODO or FIXME) but got distracted by other
> projects. And your remarks wrt stack sound a bit frightening now. ;)
> @Peter, have you looked into tcg/arm/ AREG0 support?
>
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