Re: [Qemu-devel] Buggy wfi support for ARM user

[Blue Swirl]

On 6/8/08, Laurent Desnogues <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> I propose that for user mode this instruction be considered
>  >> as a NOP.  Any thoughts?
>  >
>  > Allowing usermode to issue WFI sounds like a bug.
>
>  Here is a proposal that makes WFI no-ops for user mode emulation.
>  Comments welcome, especially as I am not used to send patches :)

Generally, the config-host.mak part should be suppressed in patches.

I don't know about this WFI case or even much of ARM at all, but if
enabling WFI is controversial, maybe it could be implemented as a CPU
feature so that it is disabled by default.