Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/5] target/arm: handle M-profile semihosting at translate time

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 14:31, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 14:28, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
> > > This is still disabling semihosting for the linux-user-mode
> > > build for M-profile, isn't it ?
> >
> > Sure - as rth suggested. But m-profile doesn't run Linux so why would we
> > support it in linux-user?
>
> (a) Linux does support Cortex-M, since it has no-mmu uCLinux style
> support these days
> (b) gcc test case binaries, which tend to get run on linux-user
> even though in theory they're not actually Linux binaries

also I think (c) general principle -- don't change behaviour in what
looks like it's just a refactoring patchset.

thanks
-- PMM