Re: winXP "Standard PC" HAL and qemu-kvm >= 0.15

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

On 06.12.2011 22:21, Jan Kiszka wrote:
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>> For the 0.15 .. 1.0 change, the first commit which restores the (broken
>> in 0.15) functionality is this one:
>>
>> commit 86fbf97ceb4a9c46a609dd4ae053ba4262b68fe8
>> Author: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>> Date:   Fri Oct 7 09:19:45 2011 +0200
>>
>>     i8259: Clear ELCR on reset
>>
>>     The ELCR is actually part of the chipset but we model it here for
>>     simplicity reasons. The PIIX3 clears the ELCR on reset, which was once
>>     broken by 4dbe19e181. Fix this by splitting up pic_init_reset from
>>     pic_reset and clearing the register in the latter.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>     Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
>>
>> Which is quite expected having in mind the commit which "broke"
>> it for 0.15.
> 
> Yep, makes a lot of sense. That patch should be applied to stable then
> (who's in charge?).

I'm not sure it makes much sense to continue 0.15 at this stage.

>>
>>> Upstream qemu 1.0 does not have this issue too.
>>>
>>>> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/82871
>>>
>>> I'll try to verify this series in a moment, but hopefully it will work
>>> fine too :)
>>
>> And that turned out to be not so easy for me.  Which is this
>> series against?  Is there may be a git tree with this series
>> applied already?
> 
> Oops. It's against qemu-kvm's uq/master queue. Find a git tree at
> 
> git://git.kiszka.org/qemu-kvm.git queues/kvm-irqchip

This tree does not boot for me at all (on regular x86-64 setup) -
it stays in bios after "Booting from hard disk" with 100% CPU
usage.

/mjt