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To: Bug 739785 <739785@bugs.launchpad.net>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 03/28/2011 03:09 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Short answer: looks like QEMU doesn't currently work on ARMv5 hosts
> (although ARMv7 are fine). I'll look into this if I can manage to
> scare up some suitable hardware.

QEMU properly handles unaligned accesses when emulating in system mode,
but when emulating in user mode it issues them as direct loads.

This could be worked around in tcg/arm.


r~