Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu processor feature question

[Brad Campbell]

John R. Hogerhuis wrote:

> Anyway everything seems to be fitting your theory about Athlon
> extensions. It would be nice to catch it in the act of trying to run an
> Athlon instruction on a Pentium.

And it was all a bogus trail.. It's *timer* related!
I made start_rtc_timer() fail (return -1) unconditionally, and voila it boots first time every time, 
and any Image I throw at it..
So something in the win2k loader appears to be timing sensitive. I did try the -win2k-hack for a 
lark, but that only had random results..
So there is an issue with the RTC handler on this machine by the looks..
RTC max freq is 1024, so it's not that.. further debugging required

Regards,
Brad
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