Re: [Qemu-devel] insmod virtio-blk is broken in qemu 1.0 (was: Re: git-bisect results

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 12/16/2011 06:53 PM, Max Filippov wrote:
>>> git bisect says this.  I didn't believe it first time, so I ran it
>>> twice with a few modifications, and it pointed to the same commit both
>>> times ...
>>
>> Richard,
>> could you please elaborate on your testcase and configuration
>> (host/target architecture, command lines, etc).
>
> Ok, I've found most of details, what's not clear to me is how you
> decide whether the build is good or bad.
>
> I mean, you need to rebuild qemu on every bisection step, but neither
> this commit nor the previous or the next one
> change anything that would compile for x86 targets.

Fairly certain this bisect is a red herring.

tglx reported this the other day in IRC.  He narrowed it down to virtio-serial. 
  He was able to reproduce it both with kvm tools and QEMU.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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>>> 67882fd177389527510eb36b3f7712011a835545 is the first bad commit
>>> commit 67882fd177389527510eb36b3f7712011a835545
>>> Author: Max Filippov<jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
>>> Date:   Tue Sep 6 03:55:28 2011 +0400
>>>
>>>     target-xtensa: implement narrow instructions
>>>
>>>     Instructions with op0>= 8 are 2 bytes long, others are 3 bytes long.
>>>
>>>     Signed-off-by: Max Filippov<jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
>>>     Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl<blauwirbel@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Rich.
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