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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Fix linker scripts on ppc hosts
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, "dvaleev@suse.com" <dvaleev@suse.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

> On 13.12.2011, at 07:19, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> >>> When compiling qemu statically with multilib on PPC, we hit the
> >>> same issue that commit 845f2c2812d9ed24b36c02a3d06ee83aeafe8b49
> >>> is fixing. Do the same here.
> >> 
> >> How many of these ld files can we get rid of if we use -Ttext-segment
> >> instead? Generally all we're really caring about is moving the program
> >> base around so that it doesn't conflict with the address space we want
> >> to use for the client.
> > 
> > Now that we have the automatic GUEST_BASE stuff you shouldn't need to do
> > either.
> 
> If it was working, yes :)

What doesn't work?  I put a fair amout of effort into making it automatically 
pick a sensible value.  If there's some reason that won't work then you 
probably want to be using -R.

Paul