On Wed, 12 Jun 2024, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > I learnt that FESCo approved a surprisingly loose rule saying > > "Libraries packaged in Fedora may require ISA extensions, > however any packaged application must not crash on any > officially supported architecture, either by providing > a generic fallback implementation OR by cleanly exiting > when the requisite hardware support is unavailable." > > This might suggest we could put a runtime feature check in main(), > print a warning and then exit(1), however, QEMU has alot of code > that is triggered from ELF constructors. If we're building the > entire of QEMU codebase with extra features enabled, I worry that > the constructors could potentially cause a illegal instruction > crash before main() runs ?
Are you literally suggesting to find a solution that satisfies the letter of Fedora rules, and not what's good for the spirit of a wider community. Alexander
