x86emu boot message

Can anyone help me why I am getting this boot message from x86emu??

halt_sys: file  
/home/joe/coreboot-v2/src/devices/emulator/x86emu/ops.c, line 4387

Thanks - Joe

[Stefan Reinauer]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Can anyone help me why I am getting this boot message from x86emu??
>
> halt_sys: file  
> /home/joe/coreboot-v2/src/devices/emulator/x86emu/ops.c, line 4387
>
> Thanks - Joe

It means the emulator exited normally. See 
coreboot-v2/src/include/x86emu/x86emu.h:166

Quoting Stefan Reinauer :
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > Can anyone help me why I am getting this boot message from x86emu??
> >
> > halt_sys: file    
> > /home/joe/coreboot-v2/src/devices/emulator/x86emu/ops.c, line 4387
> >
> > Thanks - Joe
>
> It means the emulator exited normally. See
> coreboot-v2/src/include/x86emu/x86emu.h:166

OK, thanks nothing to worry about then.

Thanks - Joe

[ron minnich]

I kind of remember how this works, but you can confirm it. The issue
is that you are going to emulate a hunk of code which expects to
return.

How do you do this? I am pretty sure the emulator fakes a call to the
vga rom entry point, and places a hlt instruction after that call, so
that when the call returns, you get a halt and a dramatic message.
Possibly this message could be a little less stress-inducing :-)

ron

Quoting ron minnich :
> I kind of remember how this works, but you can confirm it. The issue
> is that you are going to emulate a hunk of code which expects to
> return.
>
> How do you do this? I am pretty sure the emulator fakes a call to the
> vga rom entry point, and places a hlt instruction after that call, so
> that when the call returns, you get a halt and a dramatic message.
> Possibly this message could be a little less stress-inducing :-)
>
> ron

Yeh, it stressed me a little bit. But in fact there is no wories.

Now if I could figure out why agpgart is detecting the wrong amount of  
stolen memory (892K) VGA will be complete:-)

Thanks - Joe

PATCH x86emu boot message

[Peter Stuge]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:40:52AM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> Possibly this message could be a little less stress-inducing :-)

Yes.

//Peter

PATCH x86emu boot message

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 31.01.2008 00:09, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:40:52AM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> > Possibly this message could be a little less stress-inducing :-)
>
> Yes.
>
> Always print a friendly message when x86emu halts without error.

This does not remove the irritating halt_sys message AFAICS, but at 
least it adds another message which should reduce confusion a bit.

Joe, does the patch work for you (does it make x86emu print the new 
message)? If it does, the patch is

Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> Signed-off-by: Peter Stuge
> Index: src/devices/emulator/x86emu/decode.c
>
> --- src/devices/emulator/x86emu/decode.c	(revision 3073)
> +++ src/devices/emulator/x86emu/decode.c	(working copy)
> @@ -109,8 +109,7 @@
>                      X86EMU_trace_regs();
>                      }
>                  else {
>                if (M.x86.debug)
>                    printk("Service completed successfully\n");
>                printk("x86emu exiting successfully\n");
>                })
>            return;
>        }