On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Rich Felker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 01:28:42PM +0300, Max Filippov wrote: >> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I see a qemu-system-xtensa so might give that a try too. >> >> Please do. I'd be happy to answer any questions. >> I also hope to port musl to xtensa this year. > > Would you like to be involved in binfmt/toolchain discussions going on > now?
I'm not sure how useful I may currently be as I've never used linux on noMMU xtensa systems, but I'd appreciate if you point me to these discussion threads so that I could follow. > My plan for nommu support with musl is to start with plain ELF, > ET_DYN (PIE) form only, with both static and dynamic linking > supported. This gives behavior identical to MMU-ful archs, but of > course with no text sharing. Then we can add FDPIC as needed to get > shared text; this requires both toolchain support and library/dynamic > linker runtime changes in musl. With musl being something of a clean > slate and aiming for minimal arch-specific code, I really don't want > to carry forward legacy binfmts and associated support code, but I do > want to understand if there are any particular properties of existing > binfmts/ABIs/etc. that are important to developers/users, and I'd > like to hear if you have any input on this from the Xtensa side. Ok, I'll try to find out and collect what we have. -- Thanks. -- Max _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
