Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/15] configure: add the disable-tcg option

[Thomas Huth]

On 03.07.2017 12:55, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> 
> On 03/07/2017 12:33, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> i386-softmmu and x86_64-softmmu are singled out here, because they're
>>> the only targets where --disable-tcg compiles.  For the others, more
>>> work is needed (see patches 6-15 in Yang Zhong's series).
>>
>> Even with that, you still can't disable TCG if building on a non-x86
>> host, since that'd leave you with no available CPU at all. So the
>> code still needs refactoring to check architectures properly.
> 
> It would leave you with a tools-only build; whether that's a good idea,
> it's another story.  I think it's acceptable, but others may disagree.

I think this is OK for the first version. We still can refine the checks
later if we then think that there is a need for it.

 Thomas