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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 00/28] target-ppc: Altivec 2.07
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To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Tom Musta <tommusta@gmail.com>, "list@suse.de:PowerPC" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>

On 02/21/2014 04:25 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> writes:
> 
>>
>>> The second bug is kind of interesting.  If you add ~ 256 disks (using
>>> virtio-scsi), then it looks as if the firmware crashes.  The total
>>> console output is below.  It looks as if "c >" is some kind of prompt.
>>> qemu spins using 100% of CPU after this.
>>
>> How much RAM do you pass into the guest? Could you please try to
>> increase that size to see whether it makes a difference? If it
>> doesn't, Aneesh is your man :)
> 
> Avik tells me that this is fixed in latest slof.

Yes, the slof in upstream qemu is too old (Oct 15, 2013). With the
latest slof in https://github.com/aik/SLOF.git this issue is fixed.
AFAIR, Alexey was planning to send the latest slof to upstream qemu.

Regards,
Avik