Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Clean up the ppc default configs

[Peter Maydell]

On 15 January 2018 at 09:30, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> (off-topic question: Do we still need a separate ppcemb-softmmu nowadays?
> It seemed to be useful 10 years ago when everybody was doing KVM on
> embedded PPC, but these days seem to be pretty much over now, so IMHO
> just using ppc-softmmu for embedded should be enough nowadays? We could
> save quite some compilation- and "make check"-time if we could finally get
> rid of ppcemb-softmmu again...)

There are some specific differences guarded by TARGET_PPCEMB, like
the way it has a different TARGET_PAGE_BITS value, and some code
in target/ppc/kvm.c related to telling KVM about interrupts. You
would need to make those all be runtime decisions I assume.

thanks
-- PMM