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[v2] pc: disable the BOCHS BIOS panic port

Message ID 1289910517-4576-1-git-send-email-bernhard.kohl@nsn.com
State New
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Bernhard Kohl Nov. 16, 2010, 12:28 p.m. UTC
We have an OS which writes to port 0x400 when probing for special hardware.
This causes an exit of the VM. With SeaBIOS this port isn't used anyway.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kohl <bernhard.kohl@nsn.com>
---
Changes v1 -> v2:
Keep the ports silent. Don't print debug output if DEBUG_BIOS is enabled
which might be confusing.
---
 hw/pc.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Alexander Graf Nov. 16, 2010, 1:16 p.m. UTC | #1
On 16.11.2010, at 13:28, Bernhard Kohl wrote:

> We have an OS which writes to port 0x400 when probing for special hardware.
> This causes an exit of the VM. With SeaBIOS this port isn't used anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kohl <bernhard.kohl@nsn.com>

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

Alex
Paolo Bonzini Nov. 16, 2010, 1:49 p.m. UTC | #2
On 11/16/2010 01:28 PM, Bernhard Kohl wrote:
> We have an OS which writes to port 0x400 when probing for special hardware.
> This causes an exit of the VM. With SeaBIOS this port isn't used anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kohl<bernhard.kohl@nsn.com>
> ---
> Changes v1 ->  v2:
> Keep the ports silent. Don't print debug output if DEBUG_BIOS is enabled
> which might be confusing.
> ---
>   hw/pc.c |    4 ++--
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
> index 3bf3862..76eabe8 100644
> --- a/hw/pc.c
> +++ b/hw/pc.c
> @@ -434,8 +434,8 @@ static void bochs_bios_write(void *opaque, uint32_t addr, uint32_t val)
>           /* Bochs BIOS messages */
>       case 0x400:
>       case 0x401:
> -        fprintf(stderr, "BIOS panic at rombios.c, line %d\n", val);
> -        exit(1);
> +        /* used to be panic, now unused */
> +        break;
>       case 0x402:
>       case 0x403:
>   #ifdef DEBUG_BIOS

Reviewed-By: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Paolo
Anthony Liguori Nov. 21, 2010, 3:20 p.m. UTC | #3
On 11/16/2010 06:28 AM, Bernhard Kohl wrote:
> We have an OS which writes to port 0x400 when probing for special hardware.
> This causes an exit of the VM. With SeaBIOS this port isn't used anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kohl<bernhard.kohl@nsn.com>
>    

Applied.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> ---
> Changes v1 ->  v2:
> Keep the ports silent. Don't print debug output if DEBUG_BIOS is enabled
> which might be confusing.
> ---
>   hw/pc.c |    4 ++--
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
> index 3bf3862..76eabe8 100644
> --- a/hw/pc.c
> +++ b/hw/pc.c
> @@ -434,8 +434,8 @@ static void bochs_bios_write(void *opaque, uint32_t addr, uint32_t val)
>           /* Bochs BIOS messages */
>       case 0x400:
>       case 0x401:
> -        fprintf(stderr, "BIOS panic at rombios.c, line %d\n", val);
> -        exit(1);
> +        /* used to be panic, now unused */
> +        break;
>       case 0x402:
>       case 0x403:
>   #ifdef DEBUG_BIOS
>
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diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
index 3bf3862..76eabe8 100644
--- a/hw/pc.c
+++ b/hw/pc.c
@@ -434,8 +434,8 @@  static void bochs_bios_write(void *opaque, uint32_t addr, uint32_t val)
         /* Bochs BIOS messages */
     case 0x400:
     case 0x401:
-        fprintf(stderr, "BIOS panic at rombios.c, line %d\n", val);
-        exit(1);
+        /* used to be panic, now unused */
+        break;
     case 0x402:
     case 0x403:
 #ifdef DEBUG_BIOS