Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu processor feature question

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

Emmanuel Pellereau wrote:
> Le Mardi 18 Octobre 2005 23:17, Brad Campbell a écrit :
>> John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
>> And it was all a bogus trail.. It's *timer* related!
>> I made start_rtc_timer() fail (return -1) unconditionally, and voila it
>> boots first time every time, and any Image I throw at it..
>> So something in the win2k loader appears to be timing sensitive. I did try
>> the -win2k-hack for a lark, but that only had random results..
>> So there is an issue with the RTC handler on this machine by the looks..
>> RTC max freq is 1024, so it's not that.. further debugging required
>
> If I remember correctly, issues have been raised in qemu about speedstep
> enabled processors.
> Could you could try to turn it off on your PIII-M ?

It is off.. that is my issue.. Not quite sure what is going on ..
Anyway.. the -no-tsc patch works around my issue, but there is still something wierd going on with
my tsc.

Regards,
Brad
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