[Spice-devel] Problem at SPICE compilation on ARMv8 processor

[Christophe Fergeau]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 08:26:25PM +0800, 阿典 wrote:
> Dear SPICE Developers:
>         
>         Hello! I got some problems when I was trying to compile SPICE on an ARMv8 processor-based machine.
>         When I tried to configure, the process was corrupted with an error : ‘Only x86 and x86-64 are supported’.
>         And the configure file shows that only ARMv6 and v7 are supported. 
>     # Check for the CPU we are using
> #
> { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for x86" >&5
> $as_echo_n "checking for x86... " >&6; }
> case $host_cpu in
>   i386|i486|i586|i686|i786|k6|k7|armv6|armv6l|armv6hl|armv7|armv7l|armv7hl)
> variant=32
>         ;;
>   x86_64)
> variant=64
> ;;
>   *)
> { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
> $as_echo "no" >&6; }
> echo Only x86 and x86-64 are supported
> exit 1
>         
>         Here is my problem: is ARMv8 not supported by SPICE right now? And if it is, when can we get ARMv8(aarch64) support from SPICE?
>         Or in other cases, can I just modify some config files to bypass this check?
> 
> 
>         Thanks for reading, and hats off for your work  :D

This has been changed in git, and should only be a warning, not a fatal
error. spice on armv8 probably hasn't been tested, so I don't know how
well it's going to work on this platform. Testing results, or patches to
improve armv8 support are very welcome ;)

Christophe
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