[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] SeaBIOS error with Juniper FreeBSD kernel

[Kevin O'Connor]

I'm CC'ing the seabios list.

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:05:52PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 07:09:56PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 05:36:24PM +0800, Keen Shoes wrote:
> > > Hi, Gleb
> > >     The tested bios, both 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 was downloaded from
> > > here.http://linuxtogo.org/~kevin/SeaBIOS/.
> > >     And the 0.5.0 works well, while bios.0.5.1 failed to boot the
> > > same JunOS images. By my experience, the same problem occured on
> > > most of JunOS version, tested on 8.5, 9.3 and 9.6.
> > 
> > The 0.5.0 release is very recent, I don't see any significant changes
> > in smbios since that time.  Going through the bisect process would
> > help a lot here.
> > 
> Bisect points to fb214dc70aaeb7b4bbaf270bb9566843a0606933 and I
> confirmed manually that one commit before that works, _but_
> reverting this commit from master doesn't help.

This indicates to me there is an indirect failure occuring --
something reading memory that it shouldn't.  I'd guess random changes
in the build are tickling the behavior.  It would exmplain why
Anthony's 0.5.0 fails while my 0.5.0 is okay, and why disabling SMBIOS
fixes it for Brandon.

-Kevin