experimental qemu-devel port update, please test!

[Kostik Belousov]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:08:37AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> On 04/24/07 06:22, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> >You may try the following patch for btx:
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch
> >or take the pxeboot built from the patched source at
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/pxeboot
> >
> >Please, handle the patch with care - do not install /boot/boot2 or
> >/boot/loader built with patch on the machine without ability to boot
> >from removable media, since the changes are in earliest stage and were not
> >tested exhaustive.
> 
> 
> 
> I can confirm this works like a charm!!!!
> 
> I had to send pxelinux.0 to the QEMU system first, and then have it load 
> the pxeboot file you created above (I used the binary).  It boots my 
> QEMU NFS root system perfectly..
> 
> AWESOME!!!!
> 
> Anything else you want to test?

Mostly, it lucks testing on the real hardware. As was mentioned, after the
patch applied, buildworld would create new boot2, loader and pxeloader.
Testing any of them on diverse real hardware is required before planning
to put the change into the CVS in some way.
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