Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/12] target/arm: Implement ARMv8.5-BTI

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 22:31, Richard Henderson
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The branch target identification extension does not yet have
> kernel or gcc support.  It should be in shape for developing
> those though.
>
> In system mode I do honor the GP bit from the page tables.
> In user-only mode, there is a way to pretend that the GP bit
> is always set.  Further linux-user changes will have to track
> the ABI that gets developed.
>
> In the meantime, provide a statically linable make check-tcg
> test for the functionality.
>
> Changes since v2:
>   * Rebase on master.
>   * Incorporate feedback from Peter.

I've applied patches 1-8 and 10 to target-arm.next, which gives
us the system emulation part. The linux-user support I've given
some review comments on.

thanks
-- PMM