Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug] System emulation with flash broken?

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 01/08/2012 02:23 PM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> > > On 01/07/2012 08:03 PM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Stefan Weil wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello Avi,
> > > > >
> > > > > latest QEMU seems to be broken when a system emulation with flash is
> > > > > started.
> > > > >
> > > > > I did not run git bisect, but it looks like the problem started with
> > > > > this change:
> > > > >
> > > > > c5705a7728b4a6bc9e4f2d35911adbaf28042b25
> > > > > Author: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>  2011-12-20 14:59:12
> > > > > vmstate, memory: decouple vmstate from memory API
> > > > >
> > > > > I first noticed the problem with my AR7 emulation (not part
> > > > > of official QEMU), but also got it with MIPS Malta, so I assume
> > > > > that all systems with flash are broken and fail with this assertion:
> > > > >
> > > > > /qemu/exec.c:2785: qemu_ram_set_idstr: Assertion `new_block' failed.
> > > > >
> > > > > The function is searching for address 0x10000009 which is 0x10000000
> > > > > plus an index. Without the index, the address would have been found.
> > > >
> > > > Hello Avi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm having also problems with this patch:
> > > > # VGA bank switching problems under DOS
> > > > git checkout 682a3c07f0e28d2532c911a44a9b6142d6299cc2
> > > >
> > > > # OK
> > > > git checkout aad3b517a1b83561f2755dc4451596a421399c19
> > > >
> > > > And commit 682a3c07f0e28d2532c911a44a9b6142d6299cc2 is the Merge
> > > > commit 'c5705a7728b4a6bc9e4f2d35911adbaf28042b25' into upstream-merge.
> > >
> > > A patch for this has already been posted; hopefully to be merged soon.
> >
> > To test: Which patch do you exactly mean?
>
> Original patch:
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/131082
>
> My alternative:
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/131164

Helo Avi,

Can NOT confirm that one of these or both changes work well. So 
something else is (still) wrong.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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