Re: [Qemu-devel] PPC: VGA broken in git master

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 05/03/12 09:51, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 03/04/2012 08:06 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just done a git pull to update my local repository, and it now
> > appears that the VGA device is broken in QEMU - rather than displaying
> > the OpenBIOS banner in my VNC client, the framebuffer remains
> > constantly black.
> >
> > A git bisect shows that the problem is caused by the following commit:
> >
> >
> > de58ac72b6a062d1a61478284c0c0f8a0428613e is the first bad commit
> > commit de58ac72b6a062d1a61478284c0c0f8a0428613e
> > Author: Avi Kivity<address@hidden>
> > Date:   Sun Jan 8 19:46:17 2012 +0200
> >
> >      ioport: change portio_list not to use memory_region_set_offset()
> >
> >      memory_region_set_offset() will be going away soon, so don't use it.
> >      Use an alias instead.
> >
> >      Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity<address@hidden>
> >      Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson<address@hidden>
> >
> >
> > Avi/Richard - please would it be possible for you to review this
> > commit and come up with a suitable fix?
>
> Can you provide the command line needed to reproduce the problem?

Sure. I can reproduce it here using something as simple as:

./qemu-system-ppc -cdrom /dev/null -boot d -vnc :1

What you'll see is that the framebuffer remains black in your VNC 
client, as opposed to displaying the OpenBIOS startup banner.

Note that de58ac72b6a062d1a61478284c0c0f8a0428613e (and the previous 
commit) have a qdev bug which segfaults qemu-system-ppc on startup, 
however the attached patch will resolve this for you.

I've also confirmed over the weekend that the bug also affects SPARC64, 
although testing shows that SPARC32 still seems to work okay.


HTH,

Mark.

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