Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix TLS support on x86

[Fabrice Bellard]

Thayne Harbaugh wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 19:44 +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to test user mode emulation on MIPS host.
>>
>> Do you have newer versions of your patches which match
>> current CVS HEAD? TLS support is still missing there,
>> so QEMU user mode emulation is not really usable without
>> working patches.
> 
> I don't know about anyone else, but I have some patches for TLS for arm
> and i386.  The patches are significantly out of date with the recent
> linux-user changes.  I won't be updating them until I finish with the
> current set of changes to linux-user.

I'll try to merge and improve the i386 TLS patch ASAP.

Moreover, after having looked again at the linux-user code and at the
regression tests, my conclusion is that the linux-user QEMU targets must
be statically linked and that it should not depend on host libraries
such as the C library.

Fabrice.