[poky] qemuarm hangs

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 14:34 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> > Building from master, updated earlier today.
> >
> > OE Build Configuration:
> > BB_VERSION        = "1.11.0"
> > METADATA_BRANCH   = "my_master"
> > METADATA_REVISION = "2e4518bf18d977e1249ef7e7cd384df66e7b4801"
> > TARGET_ARCH       = "arm"
> > TARGET_OS         = "linux-gnueabi"
> > MACHINE           = "qemuarm"
> > DISTRO            = "poky"
> > DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.0+snapshot-20110511"
> > TARGET_FPU        = "soft"
> >
> > When I runqemu on core-image-sato, it brings up the simulated
> > video screen and the Yocto splash shows.  The progress bar goes
> > to about 60% and then it just hangs there forever.
> >
> > core-image-minimal boots to a login prompt
> >
> > Ideas?  How can I figure out where it's bombing out?
> 
> When I saw this go by:
> 
> commit a2e232e2313ee267076bb8de32a1a604dbebc33b
> Author: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai at intel.com>
> Date:   Tue May 10 14:02:35 2011 +0800
> 
>     qemu: Upgrade qemu git to the latest 0.14 branch
> 
>     Also add missing patch to build qemu-git
> 
>     [YOCTO #1013] got fixed
> 
>     (From OE-Core rev: 9b80846152931bed018f33baaaf1ba253e756867)
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai at intel.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> I wondered about compatibility. Have you tried with the older qemu ?

Note that this is the git recipe, not the released version. I've just
realised that it should have a DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" and doesn't
though. These git versions used to be great for testing upstream changes
before they hit releases but they shouldn't be the default and I suspect
this on has slipped to become default due to the PV change.

It is of course a worry if the upstream version is broken but that is a
different problem :/.

Cheers,

Richard