Hi, this mini series aims at solving long standing issues with compiling and linking the guest/init binary for MIPS. It seems that many MIPS toolchains use different default ELF targets for the compiler and the linker, rendering the approach of linking the guest/init executable into the lkvm binary moot. One could work around this by specifying some magic ELF target options to the linker so it matches the compiler ones, but I couldn't find a way of automatically determining those, so this approach is only valid on a particular toolchain. Another approach would be to fixup the ELF header, but that sounds dodgy and fragile to me. Instead of using "ld" this series transforms the generated guest binary into a C file, which gets compiled (with CC) and thus automatically links fine with the other object files. Patch 2/2 implements this, patch 1/2 cleans up the rules for the guest binary generation in the Makefile. This uses the "xxd" tool, which has a special command line option to generate a C array out of a binary blob. On the distributions I checked, this comes with the vim package, not sure if that is a restriction. I compile tested this on on PowerPC64, MIPS64, ARM, ARM64, i386 and x86_64. Please test whether this works with your toolchain / system! Cheers, Andre. Andre Przywara (2): Makefile: cleanup guest/init generation Makefile: use xxd for converting guest/init Makefile | 21 ++++++++++++--------- builtin-run.c | 8 ++++---- builtin-setup.c | 8 ++++---- 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.3.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
