experimental qemu update, please test! (was: [FIX] QEMU and ACPI)

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 2 00:11:40 UTC 2007


On Thursday 01 February 2007 06:17 pm, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:02:53PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > You may have noticed recent QEMU does not boot FreeBSD/amd64 SMP
> > guest on FreeBSD/amd64 -CURRENT host (i.e., you may have seen
> > 'invalid RSDT checksum' error while booting).  That is because
> > the QEMU BIOS (which is actually Bochs BIOS with little
> > modification) has a little bug in it.  If you experience the
> > issue, grab a file from here:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/qemu-bios.bin
> >
> > and replace /usr/local/share/qemu/bios.bin with it.  The QEMU
> > patch against Bochs BIOS is here:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/qemu-bios.diff
> >
> > Basically it wasn't clearing RSDT before checksum calculation.
> > ;-)
>
> Ok I have prepared a qemu port update that includes this, please
> test before I commit it:

I am very sorry to tell you this but I just found out that I uploaded 
wrong BIOS image (i.e., Bochs BIOS instead of QEMU BIOS, which does 
not include the ACPI fix). :-(  I uploaded correct one.  Please 
update your patch with correct distinfo.  My apologies...

Jung-uk Kim


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