[Bug 1818075] Re: qemu x86 TCG doesn't support AVX insns

2020-06-18 Thread Ronald Antony
Of course it’s open source, I get that. When I say „xyz should be done“ then in the sense of „2+2 should be 4“ not in the sense of „you must implement xyz right now“ ;) Nonetheless, if you run e.g. on an ARM platform the command qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu help then it shouldn’t list a slew of CPUs

[Bug 1884095] Re: QEMU not sufficiently focused on qEMUlation, with resulting holes in TCG emulation coverage

2020-06-18 Thread Ronald Antony
BTW: just because I bracket a report with why I think a matter is worth fixing, shouldn’t make it „invalid“. The instructions aren’t implemented, yet the CPUs are listed as available, which is a bug in my book, as functionality is advertised that is unavailable. -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 1884095] Re: QEMU not sufficiently focused on qEMUlation, with resulting holes in TCG emulation coverage

2020-06-18 Thread Ronald Antony
The comments with the other reports were just in support of getting them fixed, and providing a reason as to why that matters. Someone looking at those reports may not read this one, and as the issues are symptoms of the same larger issue, this report was filed as an overarching report, as AVX is j

[Bug 1884095] [NEW] QEMU not sufficiently focused on qEMUlation, with resulting holes in TCG emulation coverage

2020-06-18 Thread Ronald Antony
Public bug reported: It seems that QEMU has stopped emphasizing the EMU part of the name, and is too much focused on virtualization. My interest is at running legacy operating systems, and as such, they must run on foreign CPU platforms. m68 on intel, intel on ARM, etc. Time doesn't stand still,

[Bug 1818075] Re: qemu x86 TCG doesn't support AVX insns

2020-06-18 Thread Ronald Antony
If I may be so free: It seems that QEMU has stopped emphasizing the EMU part of the name, and is too much focused on virtualization. My interest is at running legacy operating systems, and as such, they must run on foreign CPU platforms. m68 on intel, intel on ARM, etc. Time doesn't stand still,

[Bug 1877781] Re: TCG does not support x2APIC emulation

2020-06-18 Thread Ronald Antony
If I may be so free: It seems that QEMU has stopped emphasizing the EMU part of the name, and is too much focused on virtualization. My interest is at running legacy operating systems, and as such, they must run on foreign CPU platforms. m68 on intel, intel on ARM, etc. Time doesn't stand still,