mips64el magnum emulation broken

Bug #1245924 reported by Darkstar
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Bug Description

I'm trying to run the following:
qemu-system-mips64el --machine magnum [...]

The qemu binaries from (k)ubuntu work fine. "info version" shows
1.5.0 (Debian 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5)

When I try qemu 1.6.1 (compiled from source .tar.bz2), however, qemu only shows a black screen when starting.

I'm using the following BIOS:
https://mega.co.nz/#!gg0WBYpJ!MqTL3AFPjf4SJipdYgRK3HtFDIxA59YwI6ay5XI3KEc
which is the exact one linked to in the first guide below (can also be downloaded from there)

I'm following these guides on installing NT4 on qemu
http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS)
http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=2255

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Darkstar (michael-drueing) wrote :

Apparently, this is the fix (althoug I haven't tested it yet)

can someone confirm if it helps, and if so, apply it?

http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=3245&

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Darkstar (michael-drueing) wrote :

I just tried with the 1-line-patch referenced in the link above and it does indeed fix the black screen problem.

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Peter Maydell (pmaydell) wrote :

That's more of a workaround than a fix. Herve's patch:
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-11/msg00296.html
is more the right approach I suspect.

(I'm not sure why his email didn't get recorded in this bug; it seems to have been on the cc.)

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Darkstar (michael-drueing) wrote :

Yeah, that patch looks better, I was already wondering why nobody seemed to care since it's a pretty easy fix. I have a another bug I want to report with MIPS Magnum but it depends on this bug here so I'd rather wait until this is fixed before submitting the other bug report (or can I make a bug depend on another bug somehow?)

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Darkstar (michael-drueing) wrote :

Will this be fixed in 1.7?

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Darkstar (michael-drueing) wrote :

This bug is apparently fixed in 1.7.0 and can be closed

Paolo Bonzini (bonzini)
Changed in qemu:
status: New → Fix Released
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