Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 23:09:57 +0200 From: Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua Subject: Re: [FIX] QEMU and ACPI Message-ID: <20070201210957.GA27582@ravenloft.kiev.ua>
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:02:53PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > You may have noticed recent QEMU does not boot FreeBSD/amd64 SMP guest > on FreeBSD/amd64 -CURRENT host (i.e., you may have seen 'invalid RSDT > checksum' error while booting). That is because the QEMU BIOS (which > is actually Bochs BIOS with little modification) has a little bug in > it. If you experience the issue, grab a file from here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/qemu-bios.bin > and replace /usr/local/share/qemu/bios.bin with it. The QEMU patch > against Bochs BIOS is here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/qemu-bios.diff > Basically it wasn't clearing RSDT before checksum calculation. ;-) Also useful - patch for removing DMA timeout at boot time in FreeBSD guest: http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg08126.html -- Adios
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