Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] versatile: Push lsi initialization to the end

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2012-10-08 19:07, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 08:52:30AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-10-06 04:13, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 5 October 2012 19:01, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm not a fan of this either, but the alternatives are way more
>>>> complicated. We either need to rewrite the chardev subsystem,
>>>> specifically how mux'ed devices are registered and how the active one is
>>>> selected. Or we need to avoid flushing "unrelated" BHs for block
>>>> devices. Not sure of those read requests can be postponed.
>>>
>>> Is this a regression? If it is then the obvious answer is to back
>>> out whatever broke it...
>>
>> I'm using this machine for the first time, so I cannot answer this from
>> the top of my head. However, I don't think it can be a regression.
>>
> 
> What is the bug exactly? Outputting the monitor prompt when using
> -nographic? If it is the case, please note that mips/mipsel is also
> affected. IIRC it appears somewhere between 1.1 and 1.2.

-nographic (-serial mon:stdio) + SCSI disk, at least that was the
combination here.

See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/174687 for a more
generic, well, workaround.

Jan

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