-S doesn't freeze CPU as expected

[Sameh Shaker]

The command used:
qemu-system-arm -nographic -m 256 -M versatileab -kernel ~/Embedded/working/versatilepb/u
-boot -s -S

Qemu version:
QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.3, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

Problem description; the version I previously used (0.11.0-rc2) used to freeze the CPU upon startup, allowing me to connect with GDB and start debugging and loading different images....
Here is just starts execution as soon as I hit enter like so...
root@sameh-laptop:~/# qemu-system-arm -nographic -m 256 -M versatileab -kernel ~/Embedded/working/versatilepb/u
-boot -s -S

U-Boot 2009.11.1 (Mar 28 2010 - 18:37:25)

DRAM: 0 kB
## Unknown FLASH on Bank 1 - Size = 0x00000000 = 0 MB
Flash: 0 kB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: SMC91111-0
VersatilePB #
VersatilePB #
VersatilePB # QEMU: Terminated

[P. Baars (phbaars)]

Qemu 0.12.3 CPU does not freeze after startup. Works ok in previous versions (0.9.1 and 0.11.1). No displayed error. Connects to Insight as expected but does not stop at ffff:fff0.
qemu.exe -s -S

[Anthony Liguori (anthony-codemonkey)]

Your command line includes '-boot -s' which appears invalid since boot requires an argument. Can you confirm that the problem still occurs with a proper command line.

[Matthew Davey (mdavey)]

Actually you have read that incorrectly, the "-boot" was part of the argument to the "-kernel". Their command line states "~/Embedded/working/versatilepb/u-boot" which was broken over the end of line:

qemu-system-arm -nographic -m 256 -M versatileab -kernel ~/Embedded/working/versatilepb/u-boot -s -S

[Peter Maydell (pmaydell)]

-s -S works for me, so I'm going to assume this bug has been fixed at some point in the last 2 years. Reopen if it still persists in QEMU 1.1.