On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:25:50AM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 06:47:58PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > Il 12/12/2012 17:04, Luigi Rizzo ha scritto: > > > 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 ? > > > > Not reverting the change (which fixes other things), but yes---we should > > get the fix into SeaBIOS. > > > > I don't have a FreeBSD VM handy, can you try the attached BIOS so I can > > have your Tested-by? The patch I used is after my signature. > > > > Paolo > > Could you please provide a pre-compiled BIOS image so I could test > this out? I believe the issue I have is the same but it doesn't hurt > to have more testing. :) > > I also noticed some issues booting FreeBSD 9 when I was testing > QEMU 1.3.0 on OpenBSD and have put it aside until some regressions > are fixed with the release.
*sigh* Of course now that I am trying to reproduce the issue with the BIOS image that comes with 1.3.0 with the FreeBSD 9.1 RC3 CD image I was testing with earlier I am not able to. But this newer BIOS image doesn't seem to make it any worse either. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
