[SeaBIOS] seabios 0.6.1 regression

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Mon Nov 15 16:04:27 CET 2010


On 11/15/2010 03:39 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Installing Windows XP with seabios 0.6.1, immediately after the first 
> reboot, Windows hangs in protected mode instead of proceeding with 
> installation.
>
> I'm bisecting this, but if anyone can point to a likely culprit, I can 
> try it first.
>

Bisect says:

commit 9a01a9c3eb336eca37c17fd74c79806ee0bda05b
Author: Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
Date:   Wed Aug 25 21:07:48 2010 -0400

     Only show bootsplash during boot menu.

     When the bootsplash picture is shown, it's not possible to see text.
     So, only display the picture while prompting the user for the boot
     menu.

git bisect start 'rel-0.6.1' '17d3e46511aeedc9f09a8216d194d749187b80aa'
# good: [b4525a0ec176426788f293cce92160e6573e86b6] Handle unaligned 
sizes in iomemcpy().
git bisect good b4525a0ec176426788f293cce92160e6573e86b6
# good: [e2074bf6ec2956e1d803e62dcb052b7c88c214f0] Add ACPI SSDT/DSDT 
support for CPU hotplug.
git bisect good e2074bf6ec2956e1d803e62dcb052b7c88c214f0
# bad: [7ce09ae6542f0f4187024ae3267b61a0cf6ebd39] Make 
tools/transdump.py more resilient to unknown input.
git bisect bad 7ce09ae6542f0f4187024ae3267b61a0cf6ebd39
# good: [5feb83c8a55744397b4dd208fb4016a5c051222e] add write support to 
virtio-blk
git bisect good 5feb83c8a55744397b4dd208fb4016a5c051222e
# bad: [6039fc55274deb7202060d08e0f23b9f3dcface4] Update qemu_cfg_read 
to use "rep insb".
git bisect bad 6039fc55274deb7202060d08e0f23b9f3dcface4


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function




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