Re: commit f6be75d03c88 broke qemu-system-mips64.

From: Ralf Baechle
Date: Wed Sep 08 2010 - 03:43:03 EST


On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:29:28AM -0700, David Daney wrote:

> >You'll need QEMU installed. Note that Ubuntu's qemu package is actually
> >kqemu, and doesn't support any non-x86 targets. You need to install
> >"qemu-kvm-extras" to get _actual_ qemu. I don't know why they broke this.
> >
> >Once you've confirmed it used to work, replace the zImage-mips64 file with a
> >vmlinux built using the attached .config and ./run-emulator.sh again. If you
> >build f6be75d03c88 it fails, but f6be75d03c88^1 works. If you build 2.6.35
> >but revert the f6be75d03c88 patch (all one line of it), it works. If you don't
> >revert it, v2.6.35 is still broken.
> >
> >Rob
>
> Has anybody tried it on a real 64-bit Malta? Perhaps the emulator
> is broken.

There is no MIPS64 R2 core for the Malta. I think the best evidence pointing
to an emulator issue is that the current code is working on Cavium.

Ralf
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