Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] configure: Add new target ppc64el-linux-user

[Peter Maydell]

On 8 May 2014 16:51, Doug Kwan (關振德) <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> 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 descriptor
> or an entry for a signal handler when this is implemented for ppc64 in the
> 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