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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:38:22 +0100
From:      Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: please test qemu-devel port update (2008-03-02 snapshot)
Message-ID:  <20080304223822.GA35494@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080302202120.GA62260@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
References:  <20080302202120.GA62260@saturn.kn-bremen.de>

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On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:20PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>  Again, interesting things are happening in the qemu development tree,
> among others the ncurses patch has been committed (allowing to see
> vga text output without sdl by passing -curses), e1000 emulation i.e.
> an emulated em(4) that should be even faster than the e100 since it also
> features TSO is now in (-net nic,model=e1000), and qemu is now moving
> to a new codegenerator called tcg that's supposed to eliminate the gcc3
> dependency once everything has been converted to it.
> 
>  Unfortunately, tcg also seems to cause the first regression I've found,
> qemu-system-x86_64 now makes the 7.0 amd64 isos pagefault in
> _thread_lock_flags, even tho I've added the cpu-exec.c patch that
> fixes the hang of the same guests with qemu 0.9.1 (see
> 	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-02/msg00334.html
> ), I'll post a little more about that in a seperate post to the qemu list.
> (will crosspost to -emulation.)
> 
>  Anyway the update is here (also queued on tb3):
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20080302.patch

Updated patch available, fixed the 7.0 amd64 iso faults (indeed it was
a tcg bug, I can boot livefs amd64 also on i386 now and enter fixit),
and added the gnutls dependency knob that I just commited to the 0.9.1
qemu port too.

 enjoy,
	Juergen



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