On 7/17/24 09:41, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> we've also had two reports about issues with 32-bit guests now[0][1] >> (both had '-m 4096' in the QEMU commandline), which I was able to >> reproduce with a 32-bit Debian 12.6 install, so nothing ancient ;) The >> QEMU commandline is below[2]. >> >> Unfortunately, it still fails to boot, even with the "limit address >> space used for pci devices, part two" patch applied on top of rel-1.16.3 >> (and using current QEMU master). > > Reproduces here. Seems there is something seriously wrong in that > debian kernel.
We can complain about every kernel out there being "wrong", but ultimately what good is a BIOS if it is not able to boot reliably even older OSes? What do we lose by just reverting things to the state that actually worked? > > Even when going for 36 phys bits (-cpu host,host-phys-bits-limit=36), > which is the physical address space of PAE mode when it was introduced > by the pentium pro, the guest fails to boot. That *really* should not > happen. > > I guess what you are seeing here is i386 support in the linux kernel > starting to bitrot due to everybody moving to 64-bit ... > > take care, > Gerd > > _______________________________________________ > SeaBIOS mailing list -- seabios@seabios.org > To unsubscribe send an email to seabios-le...@seabios.org _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list -- seabios@seabios.org To unsubscribe send an email to seabios-le...@seabios.org
