[Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU regressions ...

[Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:03:54AM +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:38:05AM +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> >
> >>It seems that the page table is remapped at an invalid address:
> >>
> >>IN:
> >>0x00100026:  movl   $0x30101000,%eax
> >>0x0010002b:  movl   %eax,%cr3
> >>
> >>I think more patches are needed to remap this kernel to a right address. 
> >>BUT...
> >>
> >>If you take my latest patches, you can use with QEMU any _unpatched_ 
> >>linux kernel now :-)
> >
> >
> >hmm, what patches? I used the cvs version ...
> I just commited new patches - I am preparing a new release.
okay, so a 4.4 release is comming up, right?

> >but this will use the 'slower' soft-mmu right?
> Yes.
was there some testing how much slower the soft-mmu is?
or how much overhead it adds?

> >what about gdb support, any improvement on that?
> gdb should work better (single step is implemented but 
> I did not use it a lot).
okay, will test it ...

thanks for doing QEMU,
Herbert

> Fabrice.