Re: [Qemu-devel] Maintainers, please tell us how to boot your machines!

[Thomas Huth]

On 12/04/2019 14.12, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 12/04/2019 13.28, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 4/12/19 1:11 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> On 13/03/2019 02.06, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> '
>>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:44 PM Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>>     = hw/arm/nseries.c =
>>>>>     Andrzej Zaborowski <address@hidden> (odd fixer:nSeries)
>>>>>     Peter Maydell <address@hidden> (odd fixer:nSeries)
>>>>>     address@hidden (open list:nSeries)
>>>>
>>>> images:
>>>> http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/meego-n8x0/
>>>>
>>>> $ qemu-system-arm -M n810 -kernel
>>>> meego-arm-n8x0-1.0.80.20100712.1431-vmlinuz-2.6.35~rc4-129.1-n8x0
>>>> -append "root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 console=ttyS0 printk.time=0 rootwait" -m
>>>> 130 -sd meego-arm-n8x0-1.0.80.20100712.1431-sda.raw -serial stdio
>>>
>>> That does not work for me - I only get a white screen that turns to
>>> black after half a second, and no output (also not on the serial
>>> console). Does it still work for you with the latest QEMU master branch?
>>
>> It is broken since a long time. I guess rememember some irc chat about
>> it previous to v2.9.0, then I added this line to my TODO "this command
>> used to work, see what's wrong here". I never bisected to figure out
>> since when it got bitroted.
> 
> Ok, thanks, good to know. I was just thinking about deprecating this
> machine, since it uses the already deprecated bluetooth subsystem, and
> we likely can not remove bluetooth without removing this machine, too.
> So if it is already broken, that's another reason for really deprecating
> this machine now.

Ah, well, the kernel still boots if I remove the "console=ttyS0" from
the argument list... so it is not completely broken yet.

 Thomas