From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbkbd-00008M-Pk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:48:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbkbd-00007k-8a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:48:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbkbd-00007d-2w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:48:29 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.38.19]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jbkbd-0004qu-0U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:48:29 -0400 Received: from volta-wlan.aurel32.net ([2002:52e8:2fb:ffff:21d:e0ff:fe49:1047] helo=volta.aurel32.net) by hall.aurel32.net with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JbkbX-00039P-Kh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:48:23 +0100 Received: from localhost.aurel32.net ([127.0.0.1] ident=aurel32) by volta.aurel32.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JbkbS-0008RR-Kb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:48:18 +0100 Message-ID: <47E046B2.7060103@aurel32.net> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:48:18 +0100 From: Aurelien Jarno MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: New x86 BIOS image References: <20080313193940.GA16621@volta.aurel32.net> <006501c88938$3e38e8b0$0201a8c0@zeug> In-Reply-To: <006501c88938$3e38e8b0$0201a8c0@zeug> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Sebastian Herbszt a écrit : > Aurelien, > >> I had a problem with SMP support, as the delay between the launch of >> the >> SIPI and the read of the number of CPU was too short. It was >> controlled >> by a simple delay loop which seems to be too short now. Instead of >> waiting an arbitrary amount of time, I use the same solution as the >> one >> choosen in KVM, that is to export the number of CPUs in the NVRAM. A >> patch for that has been post among the KVM patches by Anthony Liguori. > > bios.diff also includes part of "kvm: bios: sync tsc on bootup" patch > from kvm (git commit 9c34f44a1df4d10bc4d394b924e8de50e7012000). > Did it slip in or did you intend to include it and just missed to > mention it? > It actually slipped into it. I will remove this part before building the final image. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32@debian.org | aurelien@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net