[FIX] QEMU and ACPI

Juergen Lock nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Thu Feb 1 23:36:51 UTC 2007


In article <20070201210957.GA27582 at ravenloft.kiev.ua> you write:
>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

That one has been committed to qemu in the meantime, so its included
in the eperimental update I just posted.

	Juergen


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