On 5/9/07, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:
>
> MingyanGuo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > The -s option for qemu-system-x86_64 is not useable.
> > I've already post a patch, but it is ignored.
>
> Have you seen my patch [1] on this already? Does it work for you? It's
> running fine here, but there are still some open questions [2], and I
> unfortunately didn't received feedback on my last revisions as well.
>
> I haven't looked in details at your approach, but you stumbled over the
> same thing as I did, that redefining the register constants would
> simplify things significantly - if this is fine with the rest of qemu.


I read your patch now, our approaches are the same I think, just in
different
forms. I don't know if there are any adverse side effects to redefine the
register
constants (see my comments in the patch), so a simple register mapping is a
quick fix :-)

> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-05/msg00062.html
> > This patch is for version 0.9.0, could some body merge it
> > in the cvs tree?
> >
>
> However the solution will finally look like, a fix for the next release
> would be welcome here as well! One just need to know which way is
> preferred...
>
> Jan
>
>
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-04/msg00554.html
> [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-04/msg00524.html
>
>
>
I should cancel my patch now, as I am debugging an OS kernel, no xmms/fpu
registers considered, and your patch is better. :D

Regards,
MingyanGuo

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