[ug-bosug] [belenix-discuss] BeleniX - Project Day proposal for FOSS.IN/2007

[Moinak Ghosh]

Ananth Shrinivas wrote:
> Hey Venky,
>   
>> Great!  So, that could be our first option.  We also need to try
>> out Qemu and see if we can get BeleniX/Indiana to work on that.
>> And then, there's the install fest.  We need a couple of people
>> to explore each of these possibilities.  Call for volunteers?  Or
>> do we hold off until the BOSUG meeting this weekend?
>>   
>>     
> I have tried BeleniX on Qemu many times with mixed results.
>
> I was able to boot 0.6 in command line mode. GUI doesn't come up though: 
> http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=776403662&size=l
>
> But I have seen quite a few panics arising from rootnex_dma_unbindhdl() in 0.5.1. I suspect until a few folks start using BeleniX on Qemu regularly and start reporting bugs, we might never really know if Qemu is good enough for FOSS.IN or not.

   That rootnex..blahblah thing was a result of memory corruption in
   a remarkable corner case which was fixed in 0.6.1. See here:

   http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/hsfs_changes_in_recent_belenix

   It was a hell to figure out the root cause.
   However I did not yet try out 0.6.1 with Qemu. If anyone is trying
   it out, I'd suggest using the latest release from the Qemu website.

Regards,
Moinak.

> Cheers,
> Ananth
>
>
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