Re: Linux emulation

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Christos Zoulas wrote:
>In article <20140402181826.6567D12967%ren.fdy2.co.uk@localhost>,
>Robert Swindells  <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>>
>>I'm trying to get Linux emulation on arm to work with EABI binaries.
>>
>>I have got the kernel to find the correct syscalls but suspect that
>>they are not seeing the arguments in the expected registers.
>>
>>I'm trying this on a default evbarm build, should I switch to eabi for
>>the toolchain and make the Linux syscall code that I have added be
>>conditional on __ARM_EABI__ ?
>
>I think so. It is not possible to run linux EABI binaries on a non EABI
>native system, right?

I have tried it out after sending that email, the ABI of the host
system doesn't seem to make any difference, I'm getting good ktrace
logs now.

I was wondering if our EABI did similar things to the Linux one in
aligning 64 bit parameters in registers.

Robert Swindells