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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@st.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [ARM/FDPIC 1/4] linux-user: ARM-FDPIC: Add configure option to support loading of FDPIC binaries
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:04:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA9b7coeoZUX9JhkMZbLsEaM265g5Y844JScaO0k-1dsxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180406151752.10854-2-christophe.lyon@st.com>

On 6 April 2018 at 16:17, Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@st.com> wrote:
> Adds --enable-fdpic and --disable-fdpic configure options.  This
> feature is disabled by default, that's why it is not described in the
> "Optional features" help section (which are enabled by default if
> possible).
>
> FDPIC ELF objects are identified with e_ident[EI_OSABI] ==
> ELFOSABI_ARM_FDPIC.

If we can identify these ELF objects by looking in the ELF header,
why would we want to make this all a configure option that's
disabled by default?

I think we should just have support for these binaries enabled
always. Otherwise it will bitrot because nobody compiles it.

thanks
-- PMM

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-13 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-06 15:17 [Qemu-devel] [ARM/FDPIC 0/4] FDPIC ABI for ARM Christophe Lyon
2018-04-06 15:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [ARM/FDPIC 1/4] linux-user: ARM-FDPIC: Add configure option to support loading of FDPIC binaries Christophe Lyon
2018-04-13 15:04   ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2018-04-16  7:57     ` Christophe Lyon
2018-04-16  9:19       ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-06 15:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [ARM/FDPIC 2/4] linux-user: ARM-FDPIC: Add support of FDPIC for ARM Christophe Lyon
2018-04-13 15:07   ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-16  7:59     ` Christophe Lyon
2018-04-06 15:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [ARM/FDPIC 3/4] linux-user: ARM-FDPIC: Add support for signals for FDPIC targets Christophe Lyon
2018-04-13 15:14   ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-06 15:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [ARM/FDPIC 4/4] linux-user: ARM-FDPIC: Add arm get tls syscall support Christophe Lyon
2018-04-13 15:03   ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-16  7:49     ` Christophe Lyon
2018-04-13 15:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [ARM/FDPIC 0/4] FDPIC ABI for ARM Peter Maydell
2018-04-16  8:01   ` Christophe Lyon

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