Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/29] tcg-aarch64 improvements

[Claudio Fontana]

On 10.09.2013 15:16, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 09/10/2013 01:27 AM, Claudio Fontana wrote:
>> There are two aspects.
>>
>> On one side, although some changes do not break anything, I see some 
>> problems in them.
> 
> Then let us discuss them, sooner rather than later.
> 
>> Putting them as a prerequisite for the rest forces us to agreeing on
>> everything before moving forward, instead of being able to agree on separate
>> chunks (meat first, rest later). In my view, this makes the process longer.
> 
> If we have no common ground on how the port should look, then we simply cannot
> move forward full stop.
> 
> Having put together a foundation of AArch64Insn and tcg_fmt_*, that I believe
> to be clean and easy to understand, I simply refuse on aesthetic grounds to

on aesthetic grounds?

> rewrite later patches to instead use the magic number and open-coded insn
> format used throughout the port today.  That way leads to a much greater 
> chance
> of error in my opinion.
> 

I just asked you to reorder the way you do things, so that I had less work to 
do when dissecting problems in the actual functional changes.
If it's really impossible for you to do that, I guess we can move forward 
anyway, it just creates more work here before we can have a chunk we agree on.

I will put additional comments on the parts that I would like to see improved.

Thanks,

Claudio