Re: [Qemu-devel] [ARM/FDPIC 0/4] FDPIC ABI for ARM

[Christophe Lyon]

On 13/04/2018 17:18, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 6 April 2018 at 16:17, Christophe Lyon <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This patch series implements the QEMU contribution of the FDPIC
> > ABI for ARM targets.
>
> > I am currently working on updating the patches for the other toolchain
> > components, and will upstream them soon. This includes gcc, uclibc,
> > and gdb.
> >
> > This series provides support for ARM v7 and later architectures and
> > has been used to run the GCC tests on arm-linux-gnueabi without
> > regression, as well as arm-linux-uclibceabi.
> >
> > Are the QEMU patches OK for inclusion in master?
>
> Hi; I've given the patches a quick look over for structural
> issues, though I haven't looked too closely at the details.
> I think that given that the support is in Linux master I'm
> happy with it also going into QEMU.
>
> NB that Laurent has some patchsets outstanding which rework
> the linux-user code to split the per-architecture parts of
> signal.c and main.c into per-architecture files rather than
> having lots of ifdefs. Those will probably land early in the
> 2.13 cycle. I mention this just as a heads-up that at some point
> you'll find yourself with a somewhat painful rebase.

Thanks for the heads-up, I was unaware of that, and indeed I'd
rather avoid such a rebase.

> PS: I'd recommend cc'ing the linux-user maintainers (listed in
> the MAINTAINERS file) on your next version of this patchset.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
> .