Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow default network type to be determined from an environmental variable

2008-02-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
Paul Brook wrote: This is similar to why I dislike qemu automagically guessing settings. If you force everything to be explicitly specified (or use fixed defaults) then there's no margin for error. If behaviour depends on external factors then you can guarantee the person stuck between you (the

Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > > Any news on the possible cvs->svn migration? : > : > To be perfectly honest, IMO there is little point moving an existing : > project from CVS to SVN. : : I disagree. CVS has several fairly fundamental flaws

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow default network type to be determined from an environmental variable

2008-02-11 Thread Paul Brook
> I think Paul Brook was concerned about a situation where a user > reports a problem saying FOO is not working when running "qemu -hda ..." > and suddenly the number of things that may have triggered the bug has > grown by the size of the environment. Even if you manage to tell the > user to past

Re: Git/SVN/CVS? was Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 11 February 2008 15:28:17 Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Rob Landley wrote: > > I've been using git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/qemu.git although I > > personally prefer mercurial. (It's easier to learn and to use, you get > > the web viewer for free, etc.) > > I

Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Paul Brook
> > Any news on the possible cvs->svn migration? > > To be perfectly honest, IMO there is little point moving an existing > project from CVS to SVN. I disagree. CVS has several fairly fundamental flaws (no global revision IDs, unable to move files, and more subtle problems with branches/tags). S

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow default network type to be determined from an environmental variable

2008-02-11 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 12/02/2008, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 19 January 2008 15:10:09 Paul Brook wrote: > > It's also extremely hard to determine what environment a user is running. > > Type "set" with no arguments. (I admit bash 3.x throws insane amounts of crap > into this by default, but

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow default network type to be determined from an environmental variable

2008-02-11 Thread Paul Brook
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rob Landley wrote: > On Saturday 19 January 2008 15:10:09 Paul Brook wrote: > > > In the absence of a global configuration file, a reasonably sane way to > > > support this configuration system wide is to use an environmental > > > variable. QEMU already uses a number

Re: [PATCH][Qemu-devel] Single stepping for PPC broken!

2008-02-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 10 January 2008 07:57:50 Marius Groeger wrote: > The attached patch fixes the problem, but I have to admit I can't tell > for sure if this doesn't break other things (such as qemu's built-in > GDB server). Could some QEMU ppc expert please comment on this? Looks fine to me, but I don't

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow default network type to be determined from an environmental variable

2008-02-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 19 January 2008 15:10:09 Paul Brook wrote: > > In the absence of a global configuration file, a reasonably sane way to > > support this configuration system wide is to use an environmental > > variable. QEMU already uses a number of global variables for > > configuring audio options. >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] SCSI support for vmdk images

2008-02-11 Thread Soren Hansen
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:40:33AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: >> I just noticed this patch, I've had lying around for a while, but >> forgot to send here. > What does this do that the patch back in september didn't? Sorry, I forgot to include that bit. The patch from September made qemu-img able t

Re: Git/SVN/CVS? was Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Rob Landley wrote: > I've been using git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/qemu.git although I > personally prefer mercurial. (It's easier to learn and to use, you get > the web viewer for free, etc.) I really grow tired of people perpetuating how "easy" Mercurial is, without

Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Feb 11, 2008 10:38 PM, Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > The advantage of using SVN is that most drcs play along with it quite > > decently. Something that doesn't happen with CVS. > > So you're saying in order to use a DV

Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 11 February 2008 14:38:42 Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > The advantage of using SVN is that most drcs play along with it quite > > decently. Something that doesn't happen with CVS. > > So you're saying in order to use a DVCS you would

[Qemu-devel] Something fishy on linux-user/mmap.c

2008-02-11 Thread Felipe Contreras
Hi, There's something wrong with the commit edbcc0b2eb1d4caee5f293e5c79f81023f3394e2. I'm using qemu-0.9.1 + 09_arm_eabitls.patch[1], for CodeSourcery's arm-2006q3 (otherwise it can't run on Fedora 8) The following Makefile fails when trying to execute "simple", a recently built binary: bar:

Re: Git/SVN/CVS? was Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 09 February 2008 10:49:49 Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > Right now I can't use qemu because a bug introduced in the last months > > and with git-bisect I probably would be able to fix it myself. > > Just clone git://repo.or.cz/qemu.g

Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Felipe Contreras wrote: > The advantage of using SVN is that most drcs play along with it quite > decently. Something that doesn't happen with CVS. So you're saying in order to use a DVCS you would need to switch to a CVCS? Puzzled, Dscho

[Qemu-devel] qemu/hw sun4m.c

2008-02-11 Thread Blue Swirl
CVSROOT:/cvsroot/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Blue Swirl 08/02/11 20:01:36 Modified files: hw : sun4m.c Log message: Fix SS-20 auxio addresses CVSWeb URLs: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/hw/sun4m.c?cvsroot=qemu&r1=1.83&r2=1.84

Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Feb 11, 2008 5:52 PM, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob Landley writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?"): > > Any news on the possible cvs->svn migration? > > To be perfectly honest, IMO there is little point moving an existing > project from CVS to SVN. SVN has be

[Qemu-devel] qemu/target-sparc cpu.h helper.c op_helper.c tr...

2008-02-11 Thread Blue Swirl
CVSROOT:/cvsroot/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Blue Swirl 08/02/11 18:27:33 Modified files: target-sparc : cpu.h helper.c op_helper.c translate.c Log message: Sparc32 MMU register fixes (Robert Reif) CVSWeb URLs: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/

Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Johannes Schindelin writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?"): > Now, that is funny. You quote me, and you quote Rob, but culled both of > us from the Cc list. How strange. I definitely didn't mean to do that, sorry. ...tests... This is the fault of the Reply-To munging. Ia

Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes ("Re: Git/SVN/CVS? was Re: [Qemu-devel] What does > code_copy_enabled do?"): > > Just clone git://repo.or.cz/qemu.git, then. > > Rob Landley writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?"): > > ... the git mirr

Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Rob Landley writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?"): > Any news on the possible cvs->svn migration? To be perfectly honest, IMO there is little point moving an existing project from CVS to SVN. SVN has better support for renames, and a few other advantages, but branching is st

Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?

2008-02-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Johannes Schindelin writes ("Re: Git/SVN/CVS? was Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?"): > Just clone git://repo.or.cz/qemu.git, then. Rob Landley writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] What does code_copy_enabled do?"): > ... the git mirror I follow (git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/qemu.git) ... I

[Qemu-devel] (resend) Allow setting the vendor and model_id strings with x86's -cpu option

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Would you consider the following patch, that allows users to set two important x86 cpu options from the command line? (the vendor and model_id strings) Every once in a while I am resending this little patch. It had generated a lot of interest when it included silly bugs, but now it seems to be lar

Re: [Qemu-devel] Using gdb to debug early kernel boot?

2008-02-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Rob Landley wrote: I'm trying to use gdb -s to debug the early boot of the sh4 kernel, but it's not liking me. It does this: qemu-system-sh4 -s -S -M r2d -kernel arch/sh/boot/zImage ... wait for gdb ... qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM a

[Qemu-devel] Using gdb to debug early kernel boot?

2008-02-11 Thread Rob Landley
I'm trying to use gdb -s to debug the early boot of the sh4 kernel, but it's not liking me. It does this: > qemu-system-sh4 -s -S -M r2d -kernel arch/sh/boot/zImage ... wait for gdb ... > qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x88800058 > > pc=0x88800058 sr=0x40f0 pr=0x00