From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESJL3-0003uA-KS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:11:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESJL0-0003t0-9T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:11:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESJL0-0003sr-1k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:10:58 -0400 Received: from [203.190.192.17] (helo=wasp.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESJKy-000453-VU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:10:57 -0400 Message-ID: <43569A6F.7070002@wasp.net.au> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:11:43 +0400 From: Brad Campbell Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu processor feature question References: <20051018184347.93934.qmail@web50514.mail.yahoo.com> <1129669383.5865.61.camel@aragorn> <43556663.9090203@wasp.net.au> <200510192023.47943.qemu-devel@pellereau.net> In-Reply-To: <200510192023.47943.qemu-devel@pellereau.net> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Emmanuel Pellereau wrote: > Le Mardi 18 Octobre 2005 23:17, Brad Campbell a =E9crit : >> John R. Hogerhuis wrote: >> And it was all a bogus trail.. It's *timer* related! >> I made start_rtc_timer() fail (return -1) unconditionally, and voila = it >> boots first time every time, and any Image I throw at it.. >> So something in the win2k loader appears to be timing sensitive. I di= d try >> the -win2k-hack for a lark, but that only had random results.. >> So there is an issue with the RTC handler on this machine by the look= s.. >> RTC max freq is 1024, so it's not that.. further debugging required > > If I remember correctly, issues have been raised in qemu about speedst= ep > enabled processors. > Could you could try to turn it off on your PIII-M ? It is off.. that is my issue.. Not quite sure what is going on .. Anyway.. the -no-tsc patch works around my issue, but there is still som= ething wierd going on with my tsc. Regards, Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams