On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
What was the response from the NetBSD port-macppc mailing list? The NetBSD guys use QEMU a lot as part of their CI/release engineering process and are generally very responsive and knowledgeable: at the very minimum they will be able to point you directly towards the code in question.
I don't know. Are you subscribed to that list or know their IRC channel you could ask them faster? Please cc me the answer. I've tried my best to find this out but I don't have more time to spend with this now.
What will be done about this so that QEMU 6.2 won't be released in a state that MorphOS can't boot on mac99 any more? Looks like NetBSD list can't help finding the problem and I'm not able to debug it. (I think this may be an existing bug only exposed by this patch not caused by it based on the response we got so far. It looks like there's some overlap in memory usage for some reason which causes parts to be overwritten and adding another /pci node probably causes more stuff to be overwritten so it breaks but otherwise it probably just overwrites less critical stuff and still boots by chance. This is likely since most versions don't boot either before or after this patch.)
I think we have two options for the next QEMU release given that we only have one week left for bug fixes:
1. Take the original v8 patch adding the pci node with actual pci bus info and accept this breaks NetBSD 8.0 and 9,0 (but 9.2 still works).
or
2. Take the dummy-pci patch that does not break anything but fixes the MorphOS boot. (This may be a hack but it could be cleaned up later and does the job for now.)
What's your decision on this?
Regards, BALATON Zoltan