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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: WANG Xuerui <i.qemu@xen0n.name>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>,
	 Song Gao <gaosong@loongson.cn>, WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-user: Add support for LoongArch64's old world ABI
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:47:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA8iVrpzFnKj6Ws+F63RJSzV-atUbspFQKqsWOtptOxwPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230123102626.4144557-1-i.qemu@xen0n.name>

On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 10:27, WANG Xuerui <i.qemu@xen0n.name> wrote:
>
> From: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
>
> This patch adds a "loongarch64ow-linux-user" target and a
> corresponding "qemu-loongarch64ow" binary, for supporting user-mode
> emulation of old-world LoongArch applications in the wild.
>
> Although the old-world LoongArch is already being (slowly) phased out,
> there are already a number of deployments (mainly as a result of
> LoongArch's early commercial growth), whose migration path is something
> software developers have to care about. Support for user-mode emulation
> in addition to system-level emulation would help development of such
> migration & compatibility solutions.

Is this 'old-world' ABI supported by the upstream Linux kernel?
I can't see signs of it from a quick grep. If it isn't, then
I'm not sure if we should support it in QEMU user-mode emulation.
We've always set "upstream Linux" as our definition of what the
official ABI and featureset is for usermode emulation.

thanks
-- PMM


  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-23 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-23 10:26 [PATCH] linux-user: Add support for LoongArch64's old world ABI WANG Xuerui
2023-01-23 10:47 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2023-01-23 11:12   ` WANG Xuerui

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