Il 11/10/2013 00:27, Mark Cave-Ayland ha scritto: > > I've just upgraded my git repository from around the 1.6 release > timeframe to git master and I'm seeing some strange timing issues > running through my OpenBIOS test suite which weren't there before my git > update. > > The two most noticeable changes are in FreeBSD and HelenOS; the > countdown timer in the FreeBSD bootloader used to count down in seconds > whereas now it whizzes down to zero, and HelenOS now takes a very very > long time to boot. > > In order to reproduce from git master download the appropriate ISOs and > launch QEMU like this: > > ./qemu-system-ppc -cdrom > /home/build/src/qemu/image/ppc/FreeBSD-9.1-RC2-powerpc-release.iso -M > mac99 -m 512 -boot d > > ./qemu-system-ppc -cdrom > /home/build/src/qemu/image/ppc/HelenOS-0.4.2-ppc32.iso -m 512 -boot d > > Paulo/Alex B - I know you've been working with timers, so wondered if > this is related to some of the changes you've been making? I've also > copied Alex Graf in case this is somehow related to how the timer code > interacts with the PPC timebase-frequency.
Can you bisect them? Paolo
