Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> Using gcc4 to compile qemu will generate broken code for its cpu emulation
> but should be fine if using kvm only.
>
> This will allow users that have no access to gcc4 on their platforms to at
> least get kvm compiled and use it while preventing them to run a broken
> qemu if kvm is not available.
>
This is a pretty bad thing IMHO. There are other patches out there that
allow QEMU (even with -no-kvm) to work with GCC4. A random check like
this is going to result in difficulties down the road. Maybe a release
of GCC4 will allow QEMU to work in the future. A check like this is
just way too general IMHO.
If you're going to do anything, a firm warning when compiling with a
GCC4 override would be the best thing.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> This is not meant to be used in the long run when a solution to qemu's use
> of gcc-3.x for code generation is finally resolved upstream, which is why
> it is kept inside the KVM specific sections of the code only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> qemu/vl.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/qemu/vl.c b/qemu/vl.c
> index 634fb34..549f008 100644
> --- a/qemu/vl.c
> +++ b/qemu/vl.c
> @@ -8425,8 +8425,13 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> #endif
> #ifdef USE_KVM
> case QEMU_OPTION_no_kvm:
> +#if __GNUC__ >= 4
> + fprintf(stderr, "Can't run without kvm if compiled with
> gcc4\n");
> + exit(1);
> +#else
> kvm_allowed = 0;
> break;
> +#endif
> case QEMU_OPTION_no_kvm_irqchip:
> kvm_irqchip = 0;
> break;
> @@ -8559,8 +8564,13 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> #if USE_KVM
> if (kvm_allowed) {
> if (kvm_qemu_init() < 0) {
> +#if __GNUC__ >= 4
> + fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize KVM, can't run without kvm if
> compiled with gcc4\n");
> + exit(1);
> +#else
> fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM
> support\n");
> kvm_allowed = 0;
> +#endif
> }
> }
> #endif
>
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