On 4 March 2014 13:41, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 4 March 2014 11:32, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Is the effect of this to report system uname or minimum whichever is higher? > > That's what this patch does. The old configure stuff which > this patchset removed made it report "always that version", > IIRC.
Yes, configure indeed has that effect, so with the current ubuntu qemu you get: uname -r 3.8.0-35-generic qemu-arm ./arm/busybox uname -r 2.6.32 With these patches, qemu will report 2.6.32 or newer, if host kernel is newer. > >It would be nice to > > have an upstream fix for the hacks the distros are adding. > I think that's what this patchset is supposed to be :-) Yes. The patch 5/5 is heavy hammer to make distributions start using the new way. Else I fear they will just continue using the configure flag and their own hacks. > Only to the extent that they're still carrying bogus patches > borrowed from the SuSE tree rather than using the better > way of setting per-arch minumum reported uname that we > applied upstream. So you agree these patches are the way to go? If you believe these are too close to hard freeze, I can just send this list of patches for merging: https://git.linaro.org/people/riku.voipio/qemu.git/shortlog/refs/heads/linux-user-for-upstream Riku
