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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug] System emulation with flash broken?
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 01/07/2012 08:03 PM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Stefan Weil wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Avi,
>>>
>>> latest QEMU seems to be broken when a system emulation with flash is
>>> started.
>>>
>>> I did not run git bisect, but it looks like the problem started with
>>> this change:
>>>
>>> c5705a7728b4a6bc9e4f2d35911adbaf28042b25
>>> Author: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>  2011-12-20 14:59:12
>>> vmstate, memory: decouple vmstate from memory API
>>>
>>> I first noticed the problem with my AR7 emulation (not part
>>> of official QEMU), but also got it with MIPS Malta, so I assume
>>> that all systems with flash are broken and fail with this assertion:
>>>
>>> /qemu/exec.c:2785: qemu_ram_set_idstr: Assertion `new_block' failed.
>>>
>>> The function is searching for address 0x10000009 which is 0x10000000
>>> plus an index. Without the index, the address would have been found.
>>
>> Hello Avi,
>>
>> I'm having also problems with this patch:
>> # VGA bank switching problems under DOS
>> git checkout 682a3c07f0e28d2532c911a44a9b6142d6299cc2
>>
>> # OK
>> git checkout aad3b517a1b83561f2755dc4451596a421399c19
>>
>> And commit 682a3c07f0e28d2532c911a44a9b6142d6299cc2 is the Merge
>> commit 'c5705a7728b4a6bc9e4f2d35911adbaf28042b25' into upstream-merge.
>>
>
> A patch for this has already been posted; hopefully to be merged soon.

To test: Which patch do you exactly mean?

Thnx.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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