Re: [Qemu-discuss] Support for X32 ABI in qemu-system-x86_64

[Vincenzo Romano]

Which CPU are you actually emulating?

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Il 01 mar 2017 18:53, "Peter Maydell" <address@hidden> ha scritto:

On 1 March 2017 at 17:36, Brett Neumeier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to test out an x32-ABI userspace. When I boot the actual computer
> using the target filesystem as the rootfs, it works fine; when I boot it
> using qemu-system-x86_64 (version 2.8.0), I get a kernel panic with
> "Requested init /sbin/init failed (error -8)."
>
> Does qemu support the x32 ABI for guest systems? Did I build it with the
> wrong options to get that to work? Any help anyone could offer would be very
> much appreciated!

x32 is an ABI, not a difference in the CPU. QEMU shouldn't
need any special support for it to work in system mode at all.
It's likely that something else is going wrong.

thanks
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