On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 01:05:21PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 2 May 2018 at 12:58, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I'm curious what is the compelling benefit of having a single fat QEMU > > binary that included all archiectures at once ? > > The motivation is "I want to model a board with an SoC that has > both Arm cores and Microblaze cores". One binary seems the most > sensible way to do that, since otherwise we'd end up with some > huge multiplication of binaries for all the possible architecture > combinations. It also would reduce the number of times we end up > recompiling and shipping any particular PCI device. From the > perspective of QEMU as emulation environment, it's a nice > simplification.
Ah that's interesting - should have known there was wierd hardware like that out there :-) So from that POV, it would be good to try to aim for making the CPU emulation loadable modules to avoid degrading our current level of modularization. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
