Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:38:22 +0100 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: please test qemu-devel port update (2008-03-02 snapshot) Message-ID: <20080304223822.GA35494@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080302202120.GA62260@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <20080302202120.GA62260@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:20PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > Hi! > > Again, interesting things are happening in the qemu development tree, > among others the ncurses patch has been committed (allowing to see > vga text output without sdl by passing -curses), e1000 emulation i.e. > an emulated em(4) that should be even faster than the e100 since it also > features TSO is now in (-net nic,model=e1000), and qemu is now moving > to a new codegenerator called tcg that's supposed to eliminate the gcc3 > dependency once everything has been converted to it. > > Unfortunately, tcg also seems to cause the first regression I've found, > qemu-system-x86_64 now makes the 7.0 amd64 isos pagefault in > _thread_lock_flags, even tho I've added the cpu-exec.c patch that > fixes the hang of the same guests with qemu 0.9.1 (see > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-02/msg00334.html > ), I'll post a little more about that in a seperate post to the qemu list. > (will crosspost to -emulation.) > > Anyway the update is here (also queued on tb3): > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20080302.patch Updated patch available, fixed the 7.0 amd64 iso faults (indeed it was a tcg bug, I can boot livefs amd64 also on i386 now and enter fixit), and added the gnutls dependency knob that I just commited to the 0.9.1 qemu port too. enjoy, Juergen
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