From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 14 15:07:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 773B016A400 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 15:07:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [64.129.166.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493B513C455 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 15:07:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from neutrino.centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4EF7b87017934; Mon, 14 May 2007 10:07:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <46487B39.9090404@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:07:37 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070420) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kostik Belousov References: <462ADE46.3080304@freebsd.org> <20070423192309.E77F65B3B@mail.bitblocks.com> <20070424112231.GC2441@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <462DF345.8000606@freebsd.org> <20070424122511.GD2441@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20070424122511.GD2441@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/3243/Mon May 14 05:49:49 2007 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.6 (2006-10-03) on mh1.centtech.com Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: experimental qemu-devel port update, please test! 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: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:07:40 -0000 On 04/24/07 07:25, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:08:37AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: >> On 04/24/07 06:22, Kostik Belousov wrote: >>> You may try the following patch for btx: >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch >>> or take the pxeboot built from the patched source at >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/pxeboot >>> >>> Please, handle the patch with care - do not install /boot/boot2 or >>> /boot/loader built with patch on the machine without ability to boot >> >from removable media, since the changes are in earliest stage and were not >>> tested exhaustive. >> >> >> I can confirm this works like a charm!!!! >> >> I had to send pxelinux.0 to the QEMU system first, and then have it load >> the pxeboot file you created above (I used the binary). It boots my >> QEMU NFS root system perfectly.. >> >> AWESOME!!!! >> >> Anything else you want to test? > > Mostly, it lucks testing on the real hardware. As was mentioned, after the > patch applied, buildworld would create new boot2, loader and pxeloader. > Testing any of them on diverse real hardware is required before planning > to put the change into the CVS in some way. I've tested the pxeloader on a few pieces of real hardware, and all seems to work fine, and I see no regressions. Eric