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From: "Marc Marí" <marc.mari.barcelo@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] VersatilePB bug (or undefined behaviour)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:04:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150127210417.3e4704c5@crunchbang> (raw)

Hi

I was investigating a bit with a versatilepb machine, and I was trying
to boot a Linux system with a root file system through NFS. It worked
with Linux 3.2, but it didn't work with any later Linux version. This
was the error:

[    0.594471] smc91x: not found (-16).
[    0.595555] smc91x: probe of smc91x.0 failed with error -16

(Error -16 is EBUSY).

I debugged the error, and I found that the region was being marked as
"System RAM".

The problem was mine, I specified (because I did not change if from
previous boots) 1G as memory for the Versatile machine, which only has
256 MB of RAM

Should this be a bug, or is undefined behaviour? I think it is not very
difficult to check for the memory the user requests so it can be
limited to 256 MB and issue a warning if it is exceeded.

Thanks
Marc

             reply	other threads:[~2015-01-27 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-27 20:04 Marc Marí [this message]
2015-01-27 20:58 ` [Qemu-devel] VersatilePB bug (or undefined behaviour) Peter Maydell

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