Re: [Qemu-devel] winXP "Standard PC" HAL and qemu-kvm >= 0.15

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Am 06.12.2011 19:21, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
> On 2011-12-06 19:13, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> On 06.12.2011 20:57, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>>> On 06.12.2011 20:38, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> On 2011-12-06 17:29, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>>> []
>>>>> It appears there are two issues here, one is fixed by
>>>>> 09de0f469c3c2a277c7874f6c60992c8b94719a9 and is 32bit-only, and
>>>>> another bisect leads to this commit:
>>>
>>> Or 3... :)
>>>
>>>>> commit 59539c913383fdd3350681301b44f02fa7ee2757
>>>>> Author: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Date:   Mon Jun 27 12:22:28 2011 +0200
>>>>>
>>>>>     qemu-kvm: Fix in-kernel PIC reset
>>>
>>> []
>>>>> Anything wrong with this patch?
>>>>
>>>> I tend to say "no". It may just reveals some issue elsewhere.
>>>>
>>>> To cross-check: Does this series [1] expose the same issue with vanilla
>>>> QEMU when enabling that in-kernel irqchip version?
>>>
>>> I cross-checked it the other way, which really should have been done
>>> at the very beginning instead of wasting so much time of so many
>>> people at once.  I just tried qemu-kvm-1.0, which I wasn't due to
>>> an unrelated issue (1.0 does not work for me in my funky 32/64bit
>>> environment).  Also, since the bug has been reported especially
>>> against 0.15 version (triggering by upgrading from 0.14 to 0.15),
>>> I didn't insist on trying 1.0, which was my biggest mistake.
>>>
>>> And in qemu-kvm-1.0, the problem guest Just Works.  So i t must be
>>> something else which were fixed between 0.15 and 1.0.
>>
>> For the 0.15 .. 1.0 change, the first commit which restores the (broken
>> in 0.15) functionality is this one:
>>
>> commit 86fbf97ceb4a9c46a609dd4ae053ba4262b68fe8
>> Author: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Fri Oct 7 09:19:45 2011 +0200
>>
>>     i8259: Clear ELCR on reset
>>
>>     The ELCR is actually part of the chipset but we model it here for
>>     simplicity reasons. The PIIX3 clears the ELCR on reset, which was once
>>     broken by 4dbe19e181. Fix this by splitting up pic_init_reset from
>>     pic_reset and clearing the register in the latter.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>     Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Which is quite expected having in mind the commit which "broke"
>> it for 0.15.
> 
> Yep, makes a lot of sense. That patch should be applied to stable then
> (who's in charge?).

Justin, I guess (CCed). Not sure if we're planning to have another
0.15.x release, though.

Kevin
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