On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 10:30 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 11:39:50AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 25/02/2026 11.20, Djordje Todorovic wrote:
> > > Add options to compile riscv64be-softmmu and riscv32be-softmmu
> > > ---
> > >   meson.build | 7 ++++++-
> > >   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> > > index 8c6c0a9a32..41ad38d184 100644
> > > --- a/meson.build
> > > +++ b/meson.build
> > > @@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ supported_cpus = ['ppc64', 's390x', 'riscv64', 
> > > 'x86_64',
> > >   cpu = host_machine.cpu_family()
> > > +# Unify riscv64be to riscv64.
> > > +if cpu == 'riscv64be'
> > > +  cpu = 'riscv64'
> > > +endif
> > > +
> > >   target_dirs = config_host['TARGET_DIRS'].split()
> > >   # type of binaries to build
> > > @@ -281,7 +286,7 @@ elif cpu == 'ppc64'
> > >   elif cpu == 'mips64'
> > >     kvm_targets = ['mips-softmmu', 'mipsel-softmmu', 'mips64-softmmu', 
> > > 'mips64el-softmmu']
> > >   elif cpu == 'riscv64'
> > > -  kvm_targets = ['riscv64-softmmu']
> > > +  kvm_targets = ['riscv32-softmmu', 'riscv64-softmmu', 
> > > 'riscv32be-softmmu', 'riscv64be-softmmu']

We really don't want a 32-bit KVM target at all

> >
> > I really dislike the idea of having yet another target like mips where we
> > have 4 different flavours (32/64 bits x big/little endian). That increases
> > the compile- and testing time a lot. Couldn't you do it the ppc64 way? The
> > ppc64-softmmu target can handle both, big and little endian, no need for a
> > separate binary here. And we are going the same way with microblaze now -
> > the microblaze target recently got support for little endian, so we can
> > finally get rid of the microblazeel target now.
>
> Also with the ongoing work to make a single QEMU binary that can
> support any target, it feels like any problems with handling big
> and little endian in a single binary will need to be solved
> regardless, so if practical we should align with that direction
> from the start.

Exactly. We are working towards a single RISC-V  binary for all bit
lengths. Big endian would have to start out included in the existing
builds

Alistair

>
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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