Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: New x86 BIOS image

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Sebastian Herbszt a écrit :
> Aurelien,
> 
>> I had a problem with SMP support, as the delay between the launch of
>> the
>> SIPI and the read of the number of CPU was too short. It was
>> controlled
>> by a simple delay loop which seems to be too short now. Instead of
>> waiting an arbitrary amount of time, I use the same solution as the
>> one
>> choosen in KVM, that is to export the number of CPUs in the NVRAM. A
>> patch for that has been post among the KVM patches by Anthony Liguori.
> 
> bios.diff also includes part of "kvm: bios: sync tsc on bootup" patch
> from kvm (git commit 9c34f44a1df4d10bc4d394b924e8de50e7012000).
> Did it slip in or did you intend to include it and just missed to
> mention it?
> 

It actually slipped into it. I will remove this part before building the
final image.


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