On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 12:59:13PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 4/25/23 15:38, Thomas Huth wrote: > > - CPU types have different suffixes between the -x86_64 and -i386 > > variant (see TYPE_X86_CPU in cpu-qom.h) ... do we need to care > > about this in the new qemu-system-i386 symlink run mode? > > > > - The code in target/i386/tcg/sysemu/smm_helper.c looks like it > > maybe needs a runtime switch, too ... or is it ok to leave this > > hard-coded to the x86_64 version? > > Yes, it would have to switch based on the CPU's LM feature. > > > Anyway, I'd like to get some feedback on this idea here... What > > do you think of the idea of getting rid of the qemu-system-i386 > > binary this way in the future? > > I wonder if we should take this a step further and rename qemu-system-x86_64 > to qemu-system-x86! Distros can if they wish create symlinks to both > qemu-system-i386 and qemu-system-x86_64.
I can't help feeling this just creates a new upgrade burden for distros for no obvious win. Things have gone quite recently, but if we introduce next-generation QEMU system emulator binary which is 100% QMP based, I think that would be the ideal time to change naming convention to -x86 With 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 :|
