On 3/31/10, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote: > On 03/31/2010 02:25 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:24:51PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > > > > > Long term, I think most of us want to see a single qemu executable > > > that works for all architectures and compiling once is an important > > > step in that direction. > > > > > > > > I'm not so sure. It's pretty low on my list of priorities. Most users only > need > > one target, speed of execution and/or features is likely much more > important for them, > > and these refactorings make code more generic and harder to extend.s > > > > > > We ought to have a set of device models that are compiled once, with well > defined interfaces that model the actual way the various buses communicate. > This should all roll into a generic CPU API. Then we should have a set of > CPU implementations with choices including various TCG targets and KVM > targets. > > You can still compile out TCG targets that you don't care about but the key > point is to get all of these interfaces correct. > > This refactoring effort isn't really paying attention to improving > interfaces which I think is a bit problematic.
I agree, but with improved memory API, the questionable byte swapping could be eliminated from devices. Do you plan to finish your earlier RFC patches? Were there problems with them?
