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Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM: PCI devices emulation broken with KVM due to cache
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Christoffer Dall |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM: PCI devices emulation broken with KVM due to cache issue |
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Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:29:10 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:02:27PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> On 16/04/2015 17:54, Jérémy Fanguède wrote:
> > The guest kernel driver of the lsi device fails to enable it correctly
> > with a cache error:
> > [...]
> > sym53c8xx 0000:00:01.0: enabling device (0100 -> 0103)
> > sym0: <895a> rev 0x0 at pci 0000:00:01.0 irq 54
> > sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking
> > CACHE TEST FAILED: chip wrote 2, host read 1.
> > sym0: CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED.
> > sym0: giving up ...
> > [...]
>
> Note that this is just a failure in the driver self-test. It has
> nothing to do with the processor cache (though there are other problems
> with PCI and the processor cache in KVM mode).
>
> Do not use this QEMU device. The emulation is incomplete and it's slow.
> Use virtio-scsi or megasas instead. Still, I'm not sure that would
> work with KVM; as far as I know, most work on the ARM PCI host bridge
> was done using UEFI firmware.
>
I've been running a number of tests lately using virtio-net-pci and
virtio-blk-pci on XGene at it works like a charm.
-Christoffer