From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Steve Lemke <steve@lemkeville.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] wfi in qemu-system-arm (v6) on a Mac host locks up qemu
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:00:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902051400.37985.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4097E2B0-C5E8-4165-939D-0265DC189CDF@lemkeville.org>
On Thursday 05 February 2009, Steve Lemke wrote:
> Is anyone running an ARM v6 kernel in qemu-system-arm on a Mac built
> from recent qemu trunk?
>
> When the target issues a "wfi" (wait for interrupt) instruction, the
> select timeout gets set to 5000 which appears to cause the entire app
> to block in select for 5 seconds at a time and Mac OS doesn't seem to
> be too thrilled about that.
What exactly is OSX expecting qemu to do in that time?
GUI updates (which generally involves polling the OS for GUI events) should be
driven off the gui timer. If the GUI isn't active then why shouldn't we sleep
for a long period of time?
Paul
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2009-02-05 13:44 [Qemu-devel] wfi in qemu-system-arm (v6) on a Mac host locks up qemu Steve Lemke
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