[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/12] linux-user: AArch64 requires at least 3.8.0

[Alexander Graf]

Glibc 1.17 checks for the host kernel version on startup. Unfortunately,
it also checks whether the host kernel version is recent enough for the
target to run at all.

Since AArch64 support only got introduced in 3.8.0, that means that glibc
refuses to run on any older kernel version than that.

To allow for execution of linux-user guests even on older host kernels,
let's always fake the kernel version to 3.8.0 on AArch64 guests.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
---
 linux-user/syscall.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index 19630ea..38c0711 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -313,7 +313,12 @@ static int sys_uname(struct new_utsname *buf)
   memset(buf, 0, sizeof(*buf));
   COPY_UTSNAME_FIELD(buf->sysname, uts_buf.sysname);
   COPY_UTSNAME_FIELD(buf->nodename, uts_buf.nodename);
+#ifdef TARGET_ARM64
+  /* glibc refuses to run on older kernels */
+  COPY_UTSNAME_FIELD(buf->release, "3.8.0");
+#else
   COPY_UTSNAME_FIELD(buf->release, uts_buf.release);
+#endif
   COPY_UTSNAME_FIELD(buf->version, uts_buf.version);
   COPY_UTSNAME_FIELD(buf->machine, uts_buf.machine);
 #ifdef _GNU_SOURCE
-- 
1.6.0.2