Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] arm eabi TLS

[Fabrice Bellard]

Paul Brook wrote:
> > - It would be good to limit the changes in the CPU emulation code to
> > handle the TLS. For example, on MIPS, the TLS register must not be
> > stored in the CPU state. Same for ARM.
>
> I disagree. The TLS register is part of the CPU state. On many machines 
> (including ARMv6 CPUs) it's an actual CPU register. I'm fairly sure the same 
> is true for recent MIPS revisions.

If some CPUs implement it in hardware, then I agree.

Fabrice.