On 1/13/21 3:23 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 13:57, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: >> The question still remains whether anyone is actually likely to be >> running/using QEMU on a sh4/hppa *host*, to emulate a different >> guest arch ? This is what that TCG interpreter provides for. >> eg would anyone really want to emulate aarch64 guest when runing on >> a hppa host ? > > If anybody does, they should provide and help us maintain > an hppa backend for tcg (and resources so we can CI it).
My time is currently too limited to actually work on such a backend, but out of couriosity, what hardware resources would be needed? Is a login to a machine sufficient? > TCI is going to be so slow as to be useless -- you might > be able to tick a box saying "we built QEMU for this port" > but I find it hard to believe anybody would actually use > the result. True. As I said in the other mail, it would be useful for small tools/builds only. Helge
