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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 739785] Re: qemu-i386 user mode on ARMv5 host
 fails (bash: fork: Invalid argument)
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On 29 May 2011 11:19, Andreas F=C3=A4rber <andreas.faerber@web.de> wrote:
> Am 29.03.2011 um 00:09 schrieb Peter Maydell:
>> 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.
>
> I noticed that configure prints any ARM host as "armv4l". As an interim
> measure, should we bump that to armv6l if armv5l is known broken?

It's only user-mode that doesn't work, I think, so making configure
barf on earlier systems would be a little harsh (and that still
wouldn't handle the case where you build on one kind of ARM box
and then try to run it on an older one).

It would probably be easier just to fix the bug than figure out
what to do with configure :-)

-- PMM