Quoting Alexander Graf (ag...@suse.de): > > > On 27.08.14 23:35, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 27 August 2014 22:30, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 27.08.14 21:01, Peter Maydell wrote: > >>> [adding qemu-ppc] > >>> > >>> On 27 August 2014 19:45, Serge E. Hallyn <se...@hallyn.com> wrote: > >>>> Quoting Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org): > >>>>> On 27 August 2014 18:55, Serge E. Hallyn <se...@hallyn.com> wrote: > >>>>>> This is a part of a patch proposed by jaejunh at > >>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1358268 > >>>>>> which enables running ppc64le binaries through qemu-user. > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm confused -- wouldn't these be handled by the existing > >>>>> "ppc64le" support? > >>> > >>>> It looks to me like the point was to add a TARGET_ABI32=y > >>>> version (and I dunno, something about CONFIG_LIBDECNUMBER=y > >>>> for 32-bit). > >>> > >>> Wouldn't that be a "ppc64leabi32" target? > >> > >> There is no LE support for 32bit on PPC :). > > > > ...in that case what is the original bug reporter actually > > asking for? > > Not sure - the only thing that remotely resembles what he's describing > would be if you enable the 32bit personality: > > $ /uname-a.sh > Linux tempranillo 3.17.0-rc1-2-default+ #1 SMP Thu Jan 1 01:04:00 CET > 1970 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux > > $ perl -e 'syscall(136, 8); exec "/uname-a.sh"' > Linux tempranillo 3.17.0-rc1-2-default+ #1 SMP Thu Jan 1 01:04:00 CET > 1970 ppcle ppcle ppcle GNU/Linux > > but that doesn't mean that there is an actual ABI change. The ABI is > still ppc64le, as all binaries are still running in 64bit mode. > > So before we add anything to QEMU, I would like to first see someone > point me to kernel patches that actually enable LE on Linux for 32bit > user space. So far I'm not aware of any (and I doubt it makes much sense).
Thanks, guys, I'll ping him for that.
