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| author | Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_qemu@miniinfo.net> | 2012-08-23 00:24:43 -0600 |
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| committer | malc <av1474@comtv.ru> | 2012-08-24 07:44:39 +0400 |
| commit | f278d4947fff814dcde2ef2acad36d172ff8be35 (patch) | |
| tree | c483f5871bb83294728a3b3026206c56ad7485a9 /qemu-options.hx | |
| parent | 482f7bf86b43af9f6903c52726fedf82b28bf953 (diff) | |
i8259: add -no-spurious-interrupt-hack option
This patch provides a way to optionally suppress spurious interrupts,
as a workaround for systems described below:
Some old operating systems do not handle spurious interrupts well,
and qemu tends to generate them significantly more often than
real hardware.
Examples:
- Microport UNIX System V/386 v 2.1 (ca 1987)
(The main problem I'm fixing: Without this patch, it panics
sporadically when accessing the hard disk.)
- AT&T UNIX System V/386 Release 4.0 Version 2.1a (ca 1991)
See screenshot in "QEMU Official OS Support List":
http://www.claunia.com/qemu/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9
(I don't have this system to test.)
- A report about OS/2 boot lockup from 2004 by Hampa Hug:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-09/msg00367.html
(My patch was partially inspired by his.)
Also: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-06/msg00243.html
(I don't have this system to test.)
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_qemu@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 0682338e9..2a6d82955 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -1189,6 +1189,18 @@ Windows 2000 is installed, you no longer need this option (this option slows down the IDE transfers). ETEXI +DEF("no-spurious-interrupt-hack", 0, QEMU_OPTION_no_spurious_interrupt_hack, + "-no-spurious-interrupt-hack disable delivery of spurious interrupts\n", + QEMU_ARCH_I386) +STEXI +@item -no-spurious-interrupt-hack +@findex -no-spurious-interrupt-hack +Use it as a workaround for operating systems that drive PICs in a way that +can generate spurious interrupts, but the OS doesn't handle spurious +interrupts gracefully. (e.g. late 80s/early 90s versions of ATT UNIX +and derivatives) +ETEXI + HXCOMM Deprecated by -rtc DEF("rtc-td-hack", 0, QEMU_OPTION_rtc_td_hack, "", QEMU_ARCH_I386) |