Re: [Qemu-devel] new pc-bios/bios.bin breaks freebsd booting

[Dietmar Maurer]

Do you plan to upload that fix into qemu git repository? From what I see the 
repository still contains the broken version?

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> Behalf Of Paolo Bonzini
> Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012 18:48
> To: Luigi Rizzo
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> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] new pc-bios/bios.bin breaks freebsd booting
> 
> 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=d7a51dbbaa70677846453f
> 8
> > c961590913052dd86
> >
> > (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.