Hi,

On 2026-05-03 12:16, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + confirmed
> 
> On Thu, 2026-04-30 at 21:41 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On RISC-V, the grub2 version in trixie attempts to access the CPU
> > cycle counter to maintain internal timing. This is permitted on real
> > hardware or on QEMU emulated machines, but it is forbidden when
> > running as a KVM guest, resulting in the illegal instruction error
> > reported in bug #1108898. The solution is to use the timer counter
> > instead that is permitted and still provides enough accuracy for grub
> > usage.
> > 
> > RISC-V CPUs with the Hypervisor extension are becoming more common,
> > making this bug more important.
> 
> Please go ahead.
> 

Thanks, I have just uploaded it.

Regards
Aurelien

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