Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1344320] Re: qemu-aarch64 cannot execute glibc

[Peter Maydell]

On 21 July 2014 20:00, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07/21/2014 12:46 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Q: is this in a released glibc? The generic timers are strictly speaking
>> optional, so this seems kind of bogus. Also looking at the glibc sources
>> it never reads the counter frequency so what it is hoping to do with the
>> timer values I have no idea.
>>
>
> It's trying to measure clock cycles required to perform the startup
> relocations.

That's a neat trick, given that the generic timers are not cycle
counters! They're a fixed frequency counter which is generally
unrelated and rather slower than the CPU frequency (and
which doesn't scale up and down with CPU frequency either).

-- PMM