From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbibU-0004hp-Bh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:40:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbibQ-0004hd-Pb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:40:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbibQ-0004ha-N1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:40:08 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbibQ-0007pu-AW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:40:08 -0400 Message-ID: <006501c88938$3e38e8b0$0201a8c0@zeug> From: "Sebastian Herbszt" References: <20080313193940.GA16621@volta.aurel32.net> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:38:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-15"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: New x86 BIOS image Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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? - Sebastian