QEMU & KVM broken for arm64

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Wed May 21 14:44:54 CEST 2025


> From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
> Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 12:07:40 +0300
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Starting from commit 53d5a221632e  ("emulation: Use bloblist to hold
> tables") I can't boot U-Boot with QEMU (version 8.2.2) & KVM anymore.
> The command line to reproduce it is:
> qemu-system-aarch64 -smp 2 -nographic -cpu host -m 4096 -accel kvm
> -bios u-boot.bin -machine virt,secure=off
> 
> commit 24768a23a9b3 ("emulation: fdt: Relax condition for
> OF_HAS_PRIOR_STAGE") boots fine.
> 
> Simon do you have an arm64 host to reproduce this?

Does the same thing happen without "-accel kvm"?


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