Re: Powerpc grub_func_test never exits

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Glenn!

On 1/8/22 01:34, Glenn Washburn wrote:
> I've attached an iso that will reproduce this issue in Debian's QEMU
> 5.2 and 6.1. The QEMU command to run is (not all options may be needed):
> 
> $ qemu-system-ppc -M mac99,via=pmu -m 2048M -nographic -monitor
>     file:/dev/null -fw_cfg name=etc/sercon-port,string=0 -serial null
>     -serial file:/dev/stdout -hda grub.iso -boot c
> 
> This issue is not present in other QEMU tests, which could indicate a
> GRUB issue. But if so, it doesn't seem to present itself on any other
> target that I've been testing. I suspect there's a bug in GRUB that is
> PPC specific that corrupts firmware memory such that halt doesn't
> happen.
> 
> I'm curious how this would behave on real hardware, does it still hang?

I'm not at home at the moment, but I will be glad to burn this to a CD-R
and run it on my iBook G4 and report the results back. That will most
probably happen on Monday.

Adrian

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