From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rabin@rab.in (Rabin Vincent) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:53:19 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] arm: fix mach-versatile booting in qemu In-Reply-To: <201007141716.09384.arnd@arndb.de> References: <201007141716.09384.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <20100714172319.GA8933@debian> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:16:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The versatile platform has not been able to boot in qemu since 2.6.34-rc2, > because e388771 "ARM: Realview/Versatile: separate out common SP804 > timer code" changed the behavior of the versatile_set_mode function. > > This restores the original way it worked until 2.6.34-rc1. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > --- > I found this with git-bisect. I do not know wether the old behavior > that this reverts to is sensible, but it's how both versatile and > realview have been doing it since they first started using clockevents. > > I also don't know if the same problem exists on actual versatile > hardware or if it's really a qemu bug. It's a QEMU bug. It was fixed with this patch to QEMU: http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel at nongnu.org/msg30785.html Rabin