On 24 July 2013 17:34, Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> wrote: > On 07/23/2013 11:15 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 23 July 2013 21:27, Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> wrote: >>> This is a refresh of a patch I wrote in 2010, and have re-posted every >>> 6 months thereafter. To my knowledge, it has never been reviewed. >>> >>> It supplies a replacement for the required x86-64 vdso. Anyone trying >>> to emulate x86_64-linux on a host other than same will quickly run into >>> the lack of a gettimeofday syscall, which glibc assumes is always >>> provided by the vdso. >> >> Do we really need to mess with building an x86 shared object >> and pulling it in, rather than the kind of ad-hoc way we >> handle the ARM commpage? > > Isn't the arm ad-hoc really the much larger and uglier hack?
Maaaybe, but it doesn't require a cross-compiler :-) -- PMM
