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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 16:56:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] configure: Add new target
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Cc: Tom Musta <tommusta@gmail.com>, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

On 8 May 2014 16:51, Doug Kwan (=E9=97=9C=E6=8C=AF=E5=BE=B7) <dougkwan@goog=
le.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> wrote:
>> The general approach linux-user takes is "one kernel
>> ABI to one QEMU binary". Maybe we could change that,
>> but would there be any benefit to it? I can't really
>> see one.

> May I ask what you would suggest to support ppc64le then?  For signal
> handling, we can check the ELF header to see if we use a function descrip=
tor
> or an entry for a signal handler when this is implemented for ppc64 in th=
e
> future.  I don't understand the "redoing the base support" bit.

Do it the same way we support everything else that can
deal with two endianness settings -- handle the other
TARGET_ENDIAN case in the translator. This is pretty
straightforward with the new TCGMemOp TCG ops.

thanks
-- PMM