Re: [Qemu-devel] someone has 2.4.21 running on qemu

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice.bellard@free.fr>]

Try the version 0.4.1 of QEMU. It should solve the problem you have.

BTW, I found a QEMU bug with 2.4.x, but it occurs only if SMP is activated.

Fabrice.

Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>>I tried it and it works OK. Maybe for an obscure reason the serial 
>>console is not activated.
> 
> 
> The serial console was activated but I used the accidently the defconfig
> of the kernel which don't works for the emulation AFAIK.
> 
> But now with the right config from 2.4.20 it boots but I have still
> problems:
> 
> The problem occurs in arch/i386/kernel/time.c line 690
> 
> Greetings,
> 	Thomas
> 
> (excalibur) [/scratch/qemu/vl-test] ./vl.sh
> warning: could not open /dev/net/tun: no virtual network emulation
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> Linux version 2.4.21 (sithglan@excalibur) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Fri Jun 27 17:29:14 CEST 2003
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
>  BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000002000000 (usable)
> 32MB LOWMEM available.
> On node 0 totalpages: 8192
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 4096 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=6144
> Initializing CPU#0
> Detected 1468.840 MHz processor.
> Calibrating delay loop... <4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> 2516.58 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 24768k/32768k available (731k kernel code, 7612k reserved, 155k data, 48k init, 0k highmem)
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Inode cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> CPU: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 03
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... <4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> apm: BIOS not found.
> Starting kswapd
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with no serial options enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
> ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
> Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300:<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
>  failed to detect IRQ line.
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x280:<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
>  not found (no reset ack).
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x320:<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
>  not found (no reset ack).
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340:<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
>  not found (no reset ack).
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x360:<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
>  not found (no reset ack).
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x380:<4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
>  not found (no reset ack).
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 6144K size 1024 blocksize
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
> RAMDISK: Loading 6144 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... <4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> <4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> <4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> <4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> <4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> <4>i8253 count too high! resetting..
> done.
> Freeing initrd memory: 6144k freed
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> i8253 count too high! resetting..
> sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> # i8253 count too high! resetting..
> ...
> 
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