Re: [Qemu-devel] [ARM/FDPIC 1/4] linux-user: ARM-FDPIC: Add configure option to support loading of FDPIC binaries

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 April 2018 at 16:17, Christophe Lyon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Adds --enable-fdpic and --disable-fdpic configure options.  This
> feature is disabled by default, that's why it is not described in the
> "Optional features" help section (which are enabled by default if
> possible).
>
> FDPIC ELF objects are identified with e_ident[EI_OSABI] ==
> ELFOSABI_ARM_FDPIC.

If we can identify these ELF objects by looking in the ELF header,
why would we want to make this all a configure option that's
disabled by default?

I think we should just have support for these binaries enabled
always. Otherwise it will bitrot because nobody compiles it.

thanks
-- PMM