Re: [Qemu-devel] user emulation status?

[Martin Mohring]

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:28:54PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>   
> > 3. PPC
> > Chrooting from x86 to a PPC filesystem ends with a segmentation fault.
> >     
>
> It works fine for me with non-NPTL binaries. Sadly this is not too
> useful, since most PPC binary nowadays uses NPTL.
>
> This issue was already reported by me a few weeks ago, as well as by the
> SuSE guys a bit later.
>
> AFAIK NPTL only works fine only on ARM ATM.
>   
The guys porting BSD user mode told us that was astonished that syscall 
handling in linux does not use common code. Now I am a bit stonished 
too. Are things like syscalls and even more nptl not handled in common 
code? Or is the non common code just not implemented?