...and I think that backporting would be a bug against some other package, not qemu, so we can close this bug.
** Changed in: qemu-linaro Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/883136 Title: qemu on ARM hosts aborts on startup because makecontext() always fails Status in QEMU: Fix Committed Status in Linaro QEMU: Fix Committed Bug description: qemu has recently grown a coroutines implementation. There are two versions, one using the makecontext/setcontext/swapcontext functions from ucontext.h, and one falling back to implementing coroutines as separate glib threads. configure chooses the former if the platform has a makecontext(). Unfortunately ARM eglibc provides a makecontext() which always fails ENOSYS, which means the configure check passes but when qemu starts it abort()s. The best fix for this is probably going to involve making the coroutine implementation runtime-selectable. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/883136/+subscriptions