From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Pass semihosting exit code back to system.
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:34:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <546C6416.8080104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA8FSoMF41eGbjgycLn=FBTR+LMrMynwaPqG2k8PbHw7rg@mail.gmail.com>
On 18/11/2014 23:50, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 18 November 2014 21:19, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> The isa-debugexit and testdev character device do not exit with exitcode
>> 0, in order to distinguish an exit from a system power down; the
>> low-order bit is always 1. The return values then should be 1 and 3
>> instead of 0 and 1.
>
> Semihosting isn't a test device -- it's an implementation of an
> ABI (mostly intended for almost-but-not-quite-bare-metal programs).
> I'm pretty sure that exiting anything except 0 on a successful
> exit request by the guest will break usage of QEMU in scenarios
> like the gcc test suite.
Thanks! (FWIW, I don't find the behavior of those devices very useful
either... just mentioning them for the sake of consistency).
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-19 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-18 20:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Pass semihosting exit code back to system Liviu Ionescu
2014-11-18 20:08 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-18 21:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-18 21:43 ` Liviu Ionescu
2014-11-18 22:50 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-19 9:34 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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