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From: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:14:37 +1000
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/kvm-unit-tests: new package
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On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 08:12 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:06:56 +1000, Cyril Bur wrote:
> 
> > 
> > So the i686 problem is actually fixed upstream so I've sent a patch
> > to
> > bump the version.
> > 
> > I tried select BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_COMPILER for x86_64 but
> > didn't
> > seem to solve the problem. I know almost nothing about x86 asm so
> > I'm
> > at a bit of a loss, it looks like gcc is generating instructions
> > from C
> > that should be 16bit but then later it realises it messed up?
> > 
> > Still chasing but having BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_COMPILER=y didn't
> > solve.
> 
> No, you need this *and* use the host compiler when building
> kvm-unit-tests on x86_64. By using the host compiler, you use a
> compiler that can generate 32 bits code.
> 
> See syslinux and grub, like Peter suggested.
> 

Yeah I had a look, sorry, I must have missed that part. Will do.

Thanks,

Cyril

> Thanks!
> 
> Thomas