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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 01/08/2012 02:23 PM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Original patch:
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/131082
>
> My alternative:
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/131164

Helo Avi,

Can NOT confirm that one of these or both changes work well. So 
something else is (still) wrong.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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