This series is part of my work emulating the VIA Apollo Pro 133T chipset in QEMU
[1] and testing it by running real-world BIOSes on it. The first two patches fix
an issue regarding PIC interrupt handling, the third one just fixes a typo in a
comment.
During testing, I've found that the boot process gets stuck for some BIOSes that
disable the LAPIC globally (by disabling the enable bit in the base address
register). QEMU seems to emulate PIC interrupt handling only if a CPU doesn't
have a LAPIC, and always emulates LAPIC interrupt handling if one is present.
According to the Intel documentation, a CPU should resort to PIC interrupt
handling if its LAPIC is globally didabled. This series fixes this corner case
which makes the boot process succeed. More details can be found in the commit
message.
Testing done:
* `make check`
* `make check-avocado`
v2:
* Pick up R-b tag
* Split and rework interrupt handling patch to consider i486 SMP systems. This
required dropping Alex' R-b tag.
[1] https://github.com/shentok/qemu/tree/via-apollo-pro-133t
Bernhard Beschow (3):
hw/i386/x86: Reverse if statement
hw/i386/x86: Fix PIC interrupt handling if APIC is globally disabled
target/i386/cpu: Fix typo in comment
include/hw/i386/apic.h | 1 +
hw/i386/x86.c | 8 ++++----
hw/intc/apic_common.c | 13 +++++++++++++
target/i386/cpu.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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