On 31 July 2018 at 10:30, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 07:37:55PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> We should fix this somewhat nonsensical error message by >> completing the deprecate-and-drop cycle for this bit of >> configure, ie by outright rejecting attempts to build on >> host CPU types we don't recognize and support, the same >> way we do with unrecognized host OS types. > > Do you mean to imply that we should drop the TCG intepreter too, or do > you consider that something that makes it a supported host CPU ? TCG > intepretor essentially makes any host supportable, if we keep it.
I would happily drop the TCG host interpreter, but I don't object in the short term to keeping it around (as an experimental thing for people who really want it for some reason). I do want to stop claiming we "support" host CPUs which we in practice don't, because the interpreter's performance is not good and it only works with a subset of host OS calling convention ABIs anyway. Either a host CPU architecture matters enough that we can put in the not-all-that-huge effort to support it properly, or it doesn't. I don't think it serves the (probably nearly zero) users trying to run QEMU on weird CPUs to produce a sort-of-but-not-really-working setup which we'll then disclaim any interest in if they do try to report problems to us. thanks -- PMM
