[Qemu-devel] POST failure (loop) with isapc and seabios

[Sebastian Herbszt]

i386-softmmu/qemu -M isapc -bios pc-bios/bios.bin

(qemu) info cpus
* CPU #0: pc=0x000f3852
(qemu) x/20i $pc
0x000f3852:  mov    0xfd408,%eax
0x000f3857:  cmp    %eax,%edx
0x000f3859:  jne    0xf3852
0x000f385b:  mov    %ecx,0x10000
0x000f3861:  mov    %ebx,0x10004
0x000f3867:  xor    %eax,%eax
0x000f3869:  cmpl   $0x0,0xf78ec
0x000f3870:  je     0xf3897
0x000f3872:  mov    $0x510,%edx
0x000f3877:  mov    $0xf,%eax
0x000f387c:  out    %ax,(%dx)
0x000f387e:  mov    $0x11,%dl
0x000f3880:  in     (%dx),%al
0x000f3881:  mov    %al,0xe4(%esp)
0x000f3888:  in     (%dx),%al
0x000f3889:  mov    %al,0xe5(%esp)
0x000f3890:  mov    0xe4(%esp),%eax
0x000f3897:  movzwl %ax,%eax
0x000f389a:  mov    %eax,0xfd40c
0x000f389f:  test   %eax,%eax

Could be smp_probe():

   // Wait for other CPUs to process the SIPI.
   if (CONFIG_COREBOOT) {
       msleep(10);
   } else {
       u8 cmos_smp_count = inb_cmos(CMOS_BIOS_SMP_COUNT);
       while (cmos_smp_count + 1 != readl(&CountCPUs))
            ;
   }

Works with pcbios.bin.

- Sebastian