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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Could configure generate QEMU's linker scripts?
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Claudio Fontana <Claudio.Fontana@huawei.com>, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 06/02/2013 10:15 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> So for a new architecture how do we determine whether we need
> to fiddle with the start address or not? (More specifically,
> is aarch64 going to need a linker script or just to go in the
> configure list of "hosts which don't need one" ?)

Basically, for a non-PIE build, is there room to run the -linux-user guest
binary?  That means getting out of the way of the guest's default link
location.  If the host default link location is above 2G you may be good; above
4G is even better.


r~