Re: [PATCH v4 00/21] linux-user: generate syscall_nr.sh

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 10:36, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> This series copies the files syscall.tbl from linux v5.5 and generates
> the file syscall_nr.h from them.
>
> This is done for all the QEMU targets that have a syscall.tbl
> in the linux source tree: mips, mips64, i386, x86_64, sparc, s390x,
> ppc, arm, microblaze, sh4, xtensa, m68k, hppa and alpha.
>
> tilegx and cris are depecrated in linux (tilegx has no maintainer in QEMU)
>
> aarch64, nios2, openrisc and riscv have no syscall.tbl in linux and files
> are generated manually with the help of a script from the asm-generic/unistd.h

Incidentally I hear from Arnd Bergmann that eventually the plan
is to have a syscall.tbl equivalent for the asm-generic users,
though I don't think there's a timescale for when this might happen.

thanks
-- PMM