On 7/16/20 8:07 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 16/07/2020 04.59, sundeep subbaraya wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:12 PM Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 7/15/20 4:04 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>>> Watch this:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M ast2600-evb -S -display none -qmp stdio
>>>>> {"QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 50, "minor": 0, "major": 5},
>>>>> "package": "v5.0.0-2464-g3a9163af4e"}, "capabilities": ["oob"]}}
>>>>> {"execute": "qmp_capabilities"}
>>>>> {"return": {}}
>>>>> {"execute": "device-list-properties", "arguments": {"typename":
>>>>> "msf2-soc"}}
>>>>> Unsupported NIC model: ftgmac100
>>>>> armbru@dusky:~/work/images$ echo $?
>>>>> 1
>>>>>
>>>>> This is what breaks "make check SPEED=slow".
>>>>>
>>>>> Root cause is m2sxxx_soc_initfn()'s messing with nd_table[] via
>>>>> qemu_check_nic_model(). That's wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> We fixed the exact same bug for device "allwinner-a10" in commit
>>>>> 8aabc5437b "hw/arm/allwinner-a10: Do not use nd_table in instance_init
>>>>> function". Fix this instance the same way: move the offending code to
>>>>> m2sxxx_soc_realize(), where it's less wrong, and add a FIXME comment.
>>>>
>>>> That addresses this other thread, right?
>>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg720658.html
>>>
>>> Correct! I wasn't aware of it, thanks for making the connection.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Markus for the fix.
>
> It's rather just a work-around that avoids the crash than a real fix. I
> think we can use it for the upcoming 5.1 release, but it would be great
> if you could rework this code for 5.2, so that the nd_table handling is
> moved to msf2-som.c instead.
Yes this is not a 'fix' but rather a kludge.
Thomas gave some tips to work on a fix here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg720658.html
Thanks,
Phil.
