20.02.2023 16:10, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 1:7.2+dfsg-3 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@kernel.orgDear Maintainer, The latest version of qemu-system-x86 incorporates x86-don-t-let-decompressed-kernel-image-clobber-setu.patch which is a cherry pick of a problematic qemu patch, and needs to be dropped. The result is that booting a Linux kernel using OVMF firmware and the -kernel command line argument no longer works, and instead, other boot options are attempted in turn, which generally results in no boot at all, or the wrong boot option being chosen.
In my case, this cherry-pick did the opposite: it allowed me to boot one of the latest 6.1 kernels in qemu with -kernel which was otherwise unbootable. Someone else suggested this patch to me, it fixed boot for them too. hwell.
Related discussion: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221228143831.396245-1-ja...@zx2c4.com/
The whole patch set which introduced the change which is being worked around in this patch - whole thing should be dropped instead, see https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230208211212.41951-1-...@redhat.com/ I'm not sure what to. It breaks one way or another, and there's no solution so far. /mjt
