Re: Rational behind partial AVX support in Qemu

2022-01-07 Thread Stevie Lavern
Indeed, my bad, i was thinking about the "trivial patch" submission process. For reference, the submitted patch can be found here https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-01/msg00822.html Thanks, Stevie On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 5:29 PM Richard Henderson < richard.hender...@linaro.org>

Re: Rational behind partial AVX support in Qemu

2022-01-06 Thread Richard Henderson
On 1/6/22 1:14 AM, Stevie Lavern wrote: Do you think it qualifies as "trivial patch" or should i go on with the full patch submission process? There is no "short" patch submission process. r~

Re: Rational behind partial AVX support in Qemu

2022-01-06 Thread Stevie Lavern
Hello, Thanks for you answer! I may put together a patch to crash if VEX.L is 1 (shouldn't be hard) and submit it to the patch list. Do you think it qualifies as "trivial patch" or should i go on with the full patch submission process? On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 3:45 AM Richard Henderson < richard.h

Re: Rational behind partial AVX support in Qemu

2022-01-05 Thread Richard Henderson
On 1/5/22 9:09 AM, Stevie Lavern wrote: Hello, I'm currently testing various binaries under qemu linux user and went into a strange bug. Here is the TLDR: is there a reason to allow VEX.L to be 1 when not supporting AVX instructions? There are some integer instructions that use vex encoding,

Rational behind partial AVX support in Qemu

2022-01-05 Thread Stevie Lavern
Hello, I'm currently testing various binaries under qemu linux user and went into a strange bug. Here is the TLDR: is there a reason to allow VEX.L to be 1 when not supporting AVX instructions? Crashing with illegal op may save some time and headache to users. And now for some context: One of my