Public bug reported: Booting NetBSD/sparc in qemu no longer works. It broke between qemu version 5.0.0 and 5.1.0, and a bisection identified the following as the offending commit:
[5d971f9e672507210e77d020d89e0e89165c8fc9] memory: Revert "memory: accept mismatching sizes in memory_region_access_valid" It's still broken as of 7fd51e68c34fcefdb4d6fd646ed3346f780f89f4. To reproduce, run wget http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.0/images/NetBSD-9.0-sparc.iso qemu-system-sparc -nographic -cdrom NetBSD-9.0-sparc.iso -boot d The expected behavior is that the guest boots to the prompt Installation medium to load the additional utilities from: The observed behavior is a panic: [ 1.0000050] system[0]: trap 0x29: pc=0xf0046b14 sfsr=0xb6 sfva=0x54000000 [ 1.0000050] cpu0: data fault: pc=0xf0046b14 addr=0x54000000 sfsr=0xb6<PERR=0x0,LVL=0x0,AT=0x5,FT=0x5,FAV,OW> [ 1.0000050] panic: kernel fault [ 1.0000050] halted ** Affects: qemu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892540 Title: qemu can no longer boot NetBSD/sparc Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Booting NetBSD/sparc in qemu no longer works. It broke between qemu version 5.0.0 and 5.1.0, and a bisection identified the following as the offending commit: [5d971f9e672507210e77d020d89e0e89165c8fc9] memory: Revert "memory: accept mismatching sizes in memory_region_access_valid" It's still broken as of 7fd51e68c34fcefdb4d6fd646ed3346f780f89f4. To reproduce, run wget http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.0/images/NetBSD-9.0-sparc.iso qemu-system-sparc -nographic -cdrom NetBSD-9.0-sparc.iso -boot d The expected behavior is that the guest boots to the prompt Installation medium to load the additional utilities from: The observed behavior is a panic: [ 1.0000050] system[0]: trap 0x29: pc=0xf0046b14 sfsr=0xb6 sfva=0x54000000 [ 1.0000050] cpu0: data fault: pc=0xf0046b14 addr=0x54000000 sfsr=0xb6<PERR=0x0,LVL=0x0,AT=0x5,FT=0x5,FAV,OW> [ 1.0000050] panic: kernel fault [ 1.0000050] halted To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1892540/+subscriptions