From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 22:48:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67818106566B; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from gwyn.kn-bremen.de (gwyn.kn-bremen.de [212.63.36.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15CB28FC15; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: by gwyn.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 9C3BB299012; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:48:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (nox@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m24McNHm036416; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:38:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.14.2/8.13.6/Submit) id m24McMW5036415; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:38:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:38:22 +0100 To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20080304223822.GA35494@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20080302202120.GA62260@saturn.kn-bremen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080302202120.GA62260@saturn.kn-bremen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: Subject: Re: please test qemu-devel port update (2008-03-02 snapshot) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:48:57 -0000 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