Re: [Qemu-devel] Latest CVS build of qemu-system-ppc not boot debian_lenny_powerpc_small.qcow

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 11:53:54AM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Mon) Mar 08 2010 [12:38:37], Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:07:40AM +0800, tielian wrote:
> > > qemu-system-ppc -hda debian_lenny_powerpc_small.qcow 
> > > qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x00000000
> > > 
> > > NIP 00000000   LR 00000000 CTR 00000000 XER 00000000
> > > MSR 00000000 HID0 00000300  HF 00000000 idx 0
> > > Segmentation fault
> > > 
> > 
> > It has been broken by the following patch:
> > 
> > commit 977b6b91cee1132f8c7b12d22f4b273091598e44
> > Author: Amit Shah <address@hidden>
> > Date:   Thu Feb 25 19:26:11 2010 +0530
> > 
> >     ppc440_bamboo: Add 0.12 and 0.13 machine types for backward compat
> > 
> >     Add a 0.12 machine type for compatibility with older versions. Mark the
> >     default one as 0.13.
> > 
> >     Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <address@hidden>
> >     Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden>
> > 
> > This patch change the default PPC machine to bamboo, while it was 
> > previously g3beige. I haven't noticed the problem, as my test script
> > sets the machine with the -M argument.
> 
> BTW, as in the s390 case, does this patch make sense for powerpc? If no
> one uses such a thing, those two patches should be reverted..
> 

Given that the bamboo board is present since version 0.10.0, I think it
make sense.

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