On 22 July 2014 20:46, Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> wrote: > On 07/21/2014 10:37 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> It's trying to measure clock cycles required to perform the startup >>> relocations. >> >> That's a neat trick, given that the generic timers are not cycle >> counters! They're a fixed frequency counter which is generally >> unrelated and rather slower than the CPU frequency (and >> which doesn't scale up and down with CPU frequency either). > > Even better.
In any case the kernel guys say you can't guarantee they exist unless you get them to define an ELF hwcap for "timers exist and have a sane value in the 'what frequency are they' register". So this is a glibc bug and I'm not fixing QEMU... -- PMM
