Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: Support explicit targets for PowerPC

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 November 2017 at 06:57, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Le 07/11/2017 à 03:50, Aaron Sierra a écrit :
>> Enable building PowerPC targets supporting a specific CPU, without
>> having to set QEMU_CPU via the environment. For example these build
>> targets (and many more) become available:
>>
>>     qemu-ppc.e500mc
>>     qemu-ppc.e500v2
>>     qemu-ppc.e5500
>>     qemu-ppc.e600
>>     qemu-ppc.e6500
>>
>> These (statically compiled) binaries have proven useful for emulating
>> PowerPC CPUs within Docker containers, where it's hard to reliably
>> define environment variables that are available for every process.
>
> I agree with you.
>
> I have patches to do that for years, perhaps we can merge our both
> solutions to have something working:
>
> linux-user: define default cpu model in configure instead of
> linux-user/main.c
> https://github.com/vivier/qemu-m68k/commit/1488df8c9fa3a5b099bbc4f41c077a6c69305cc2
>
> linux-user: specify the cpu model during configure
> https://github.com/vivier/qemu-m68k/commit/496f804fd97d5f0ef26da1090e1d95ad15bcc50e
>
> The part missing in my series is to rename the qemu binaries with the
> suffix of the default CPU.

I don't really like this -- it means we'll end up with a huge
extra range of executables, and every time a new CPU type is
added a new binary has to be plumbed in to our own 'make
install' machinery and into every distro's packaging.

The 'look at argv[0]' approach is perhaps a bit more
palatable. Or you could just write and use wrapper
scripts.

I take it there's no good "-cpu any" option for PPC that
would run all these binaries?

thanks
-- PMM