Fwd: new pc-bios/bios.bin breaks freebsd booting

[Luigi Rizzo]

it seems that qemu-1.3.0 is broken for freebsd...

cheers
luigi

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it>
Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:04 AM
Subject: new pc-bios/bios.bin breaks freebsd booting
To: qemu-devel at nongnu.org, kraxel at redhat.com


I am not sure if it has been reported already but this commit

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=d7a51dbbaa70677846453f8c961590913052dd86

(replacing pc-bios/bios.bin with a newer version)
breaks booting of FreeBSD on recent qemu (starting roughly with qemu-
1.3.0-rc2).

Using a FreeBSD host, and a FreeBSD guest,
the qemu thread runs at 100% and the console is stuck
after the 'pci0' probe:


...
hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0

Timecounter "HPET" frequency 100000000 Hz quality 950

Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900

acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xb008-0xb00b on acpi0

pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0

pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0

Reverting the bios fixes things.
I wonder if it isn't the case of reverting this change ?

cheers
luigi



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