Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Disassembly with external objdump

[Peter Maydell]

On 10 August 2013 11:22, Claudio Fontana <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Peter Maydell
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 9 August 2013 20:19, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> We have one host platform (aarch64), and three target platforms
>>> (openrisc, unicore32, xtensa) with no built-in disassembly support,
>>> thanks largely to gplv3 silliness.
>>
>> FWIW, there's an aarch64 BSD disassembler available as part
>> of vixl: https://github.com/armvixl/vixl

> I was integrating vixl into qemu, but I like Richard's idea better.

Well, it depends. If we're going to dump all the in-tree
disassemblers and always use an external objdump, that's fine.
If we aren't I'd rather aarch64 not be in the "second class
citizen" camp if we have a disassembler available.

-- PMM