On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 11:55 +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
> Howdy Anthony,
> 
> > Here's a tiny patch that adds a i386-kvm target.  The main difference
> > between the i386-kvm and i386-softmmu target is that the -kvm target
> > does not have any of the dyngen infrastructure.  This means that it will
> > build with gcc-4.  I know you can do --cc=gcc to use gcc-4 but quite a
> > few versions of gcc-4 have trouble with compiling dyngen.
> 
> I understand that your approach is to remove the "binary translation"
> part of the vanilla qemu, because we dont need it. We only need the
> device emulation code of qemu for kvm. Do I understand correctly?
> 
> If so, we do not need to depend on gcc3 tricks anymore. Removing the
> dependent on gcc3 is really an important achievement.

Does your patch still call the binary qemu?  It'd be nice for
distributions to have a real qemu still available as 'qemu', and the
kvm-specific one as something else.

Cheers,
Rusty.


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