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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: marc.mari.barcelo@gmail.com, ehabkost@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kraxel@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4.1] Add optionrom compatible with fw_cfg DMA version
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:21:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160404152112.GT32728@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160404150204.GB13632@stefanha-x1.localdomain>

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 04:02:04PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>   (1) initrd loading is broken, kernel complains it finds only gibberish:
> 
>   [    0.934582] Unpacking initramfs...
>   [    1.166983] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
>   [    1.168458] Freeing initrd memory: 32812k freed

That's strange.  I certainly never saw anything like this.  I wonder
if it's because your initrd is particularly large?

>   (2) going back to non-dma boot via -M pc-$old doesn't work, appearently
>       fw_cfg dma is enabled even for old machine types.

IIRC there was a thread about how we accidentally added DMA to old
machine types.  Does this matter?

Rich.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-04 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-01 12:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4.1] Add optionrom compatible with fw_cfg DMA version Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 12:43 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-04 15:02   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-04-04 15:21     ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2016-04-05  7:29       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-04-22 12:23         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-05 12:51       ` Laszlo Ersek
2016-04-05 13:09         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-07  8:54     ` Marc Marí
2016-04-04 15:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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