[Bug 529008] Re: Should emulate /proc/cpuinfo

[Oliver Grawert]

thats exactly the opposite of what we need when emulating a foreign architecture :)
in case of running qemu-user you want the ability to emulate the foreign architecture in a generic way.

i.e. we build a static flavour of qemu-user for armel in ubuntu that integrates with the binfmt handler of the kernel to allow you run armel chroots on x86 systems. 
certain packages or build systems parse /proc/cpuinfo to find out the arch they are running on and its capabilities. 

i think loic wasnt specific enough in his initial description, if we run
qemu-system there is indeed a generic cpu, what we would like is the
opportunity to emulate this same cpu in qemu-user through i.e. some kind
of overlay for the cpuinfo file if proc is mounted in a chroot.

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Should emulate /proc/cpuinfo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/529008
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