On 1 March 2017 at 17:36, Brett Neumeier <bneume...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to test out an x32-ABI userspace. When I boot the actual computer > using the target filesystem as the rootfs, it works fine; when I boot it > using qemu-system-x86_64 (version 2.8.0), I get a kernel panic with > "Requested init /sbin/init failed (error -8)." > > Does qemu support the x32 ABI for guest systems? Did I build it with the > wrong options to get that to work? Any help anyone could offer would be very > much appreciated!
x32 is an ABI, not a difference in the CPU. QEMU shouldn't need any special support for it to work in system mode at all. It's likely that something else is going wrong. thanks -- PMM