Package: bochsbios
Version: 2.3.6-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Since bochsbios is built with gcc-4.2, the delay loop that is used to
wait for processors to be brought up is being optimized out. This result
in -smp not working in QEMU.

Please find a small patch below to fix that.

--- bochs-2.3.6.orig/bios/rombios32.c
+++ bochs-2.3.6/bios/rombios32.c
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
 
 void delay_ms(int n)
 {
-    int i, j;
+    volatile int i, j;
     for(i = 0; i < n; i++) {
 #ifdef BX_QEMU
         /* approximative ! */

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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