experimental qemu-devel port update, please test!

[Eric Anderson]

On 04/24/07 07:25, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> 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.


I've tested the pxeloader on a few pieces of real hardware, and all 
seems to work fine, and I see no regressions.


Eric