On 30 March 2015 at 12:45, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > These fix the problem with OpenBIOS's accesses to the VBE DISPI ports. > The problem stems from weird memory regions created by ioport.c. > > Patches 1-3 simplify some of the MemoryRegionPortio arrays. This makes it > easier to ascertain the effect of patch 6, since the patch only affects > MemoryRegionPortio entries whose size is greater than one. > > Patch 4 fixes a comment. ioport.c is crazy enough without wrong > documentation. > > The fix is in patch 6; however it makes it possible to trigger some > assertions in ioport.c so patch 5 is needed in order to loosen them. > > Peter, if you prefer you can just revert c3c1bb99.
Given the SPARC reset breakage also, I agree with you (in the other thread) that we should revert c3c1bb99 for 2.3, and fix this all properly in 2.4. thanks -- PMM
