Re: [PATCH 0/2] target/riscv: Only build qemu-system-riscv$$ on rv$$ host

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 27/6/23 16:32, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Per Anup Patel in [*]:
>
>   > Currently, we only support running rv64 guest on rv64 host
>   > and rv32 guest on rv32 host.
>   >
>   > In the future, we might support running rv32 guest on rv64
>   > host but as of now we don't see a strong push for it.
>
> Therefore, when only using the KVM accelerator it is pointless
> to build qemu-system-riscv32 on a rv64 host (or qemu-system-riscv64
> on a rv32 host). Restrict meson to only build the correct binary,
> avoiding to waste ressources building unusable code.
>
> [*] 
> CAAhSdy2JeRHeeoEc1XKQhPO3aDz4YKeyQsPT4S8yKJcYTA+AiQ@mail.gmail.com/">https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CAAhSdy2JeRHeeoEc1XKQhPO3aDz4YKeyQsPT4S8yKJcYTA+AiQ@mail.gmail.com/
>
> Based-on: <20230626232007.8933-1-philmd@linaro.org>
> "target/riscv: Allow building without TCG (KVM-only so far)"
> 20230626232007.8933-1-philmd@linaro.org/">https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230626232007.8933-1-philmd@linaro.org/

Alistair: I just noticed there is no strict dependency with the
other series (aimed for 8.2), so this can get merged for 8.1.