Re: [Qemu-devel] arm, mips and mipsel broken

[Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:19:40PM +0200, Blue Swirl wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
>> > Please note that at least qemu-system-arm, qemu-system-mips and
>> > qemu-system-mipsel are broken by this commit:
>>
>> Given that none of the devices touched by the commit should be used by
>> these targets, the breakage comes from just the single new call to
>> qemu_system_reset in vl.c. This means that the reset functions for
>> those boards and devices must be awfully buggy.
>>
>> I think the easiest solution is to surround the call by
>> #if defined(TARGET_I386) || defined(TARGET_PPC) || defined(TARGET_SPARC)
>> #endif
>> until the devices have been fixed.
>
> if we don't call that, how can we be sure that the devices are in fact reset?
>
> We need a call to qemu_system_reset somewhere before we can start the machine

Strange, reverting the commits make PPC crash on boot, but
system_reset starts the system:
qemu: warning: could not load VGA bios 'video.x'
invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 00 - 00 (00000000) 00000000 0
invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 00 - 00 (00000000) 00000700 0
QEMU 0.11.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) system_reset
(qemu)
>> =============================================================
>> OpenBIOS 1.0 [Oct 18 2009 12:04]
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
>> CPUs: 1
>> Memory: 128M
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> CPU type PowerPC,750
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Oct 18 2009 12:04

I'm not sure how to fix this.