Thank you! That is why I asked. I just thought it was odd to include the 8-9 if that was the case, but I have no way to test it. :)
Sean On Saturday, April 12, 2014 4:35 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: On 12 April 2014 00:57, Sean Omalley <omalle...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > >> I was looking at rc2 and /scripts/qemu-binfmt-conf.sh briefly, >> it has >> >> # probe cpu type >> cpu=`uname -m` >> case "$cpu" in >> >> Then there is no cpu for aarch64, but if you poke down further, >> there is a if-then that uses a cpu=aarch64. >> >> Should this be split into something like: >> >> armv[4-7]*) >> cpu="arm" >> ;; >> armv[8-9]*) >> cpu="aarch64" >> ;; > >This would be wrong, because AArch64 systems don't >report their 'uname -m' as "armv8", but as "aarch64". >This case statement only needs entries for the cases where >uname can report multiple different things for systems >which QEMU considers to be the same thing. For >everything else the default (set $cpu to the output of >uname -m) is correct. > >thanks >-- PMM > > > >
