From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kd95p-00050Y-Db for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:41:41 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kd95n-0004z1-Qw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:41:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52844 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kd95n-0004yr-Ky for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:41:39 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:49267) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kd95m-0000kQ-Bg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:41:39 -0400 Message-ID: <48C6D16C.1080102@5etech.eu> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:41:32 +0200 From: Martin Mohring MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] user emulation status? References: <48C43986.3030903@wpkg.org> <20080909183443.GH4829@genesis.frugalware.org> In-Reply-To: <20080909183443.GH4829@genesis.frugalware.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:28:54PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >> 3. PPC >> Chrooting from x86 to a PPC filesystem ends with a segmentation fault. >> > > It works fine for me with non-NPTL binaries. Sadly this is not too > useful, since most PPC binary nowadays uses NPTL. > > This issue was already reported by me a few weeks ago, as well as by the > SuSE guys a bit later. > > AFAIK NPTL only works fine only on ARM ATM. > The guys porting BSD user mode told us that was astonished that syscall handling in linux does not use common code. Now I am a bit stonished too. Are things like syscalls and even more nptl not handled in common code? Or is the non common code just not implemented?