[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] pc: disable the BOCHS BIOS panic port

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/16/2010 01:28 PM, Bernhard Kohl wrote:
> We have an OS which writes to port 0x400 when probing for special hardware.
> This causes an exit of the VM. With SeaBIOS this port isn't used anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kohl<address@hidden>
> ---
> Changes v1 ->  v2:
> Keep the ports silent. Don't print debug output if DEBUG_BIOS is enabled
> which might be confusing.
> ---
>   hw/pc.c |    4 ++--
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
> index 3bf3862..76eabe8 100644
> --- a/hw/pc.c
> +++ b/hw/pc.c
> @@ -434,8 +434,8 @@ static void bochs_bios_write(void *opaque, uint32_t addr, 
> uint32_t val)
>           /* Bochs BIOS messages */
>       case 0x400:
>       case 0x401:
> -        fprintf(stderr, "BIOS panic at rombios.c, line %d\n", val);
> -        exit(1);
> +        /* used to be panic, now unused */
> +        break;
>       case 0x402:
>       case 0x403:
>   #ifdef DEBUG_BIOS

Reviewed-By: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>

Paolo