Re: [PATCH v11 17/17] OfmvPkg: CI: Qemu tests: set CPU to Broadwell

["Yao, Jiewen" <jiewen.yao@intel.com>]

Not sure the detail.

Could you please add more comment, such as, what issue? Why crash? Why changing to Broadwell can resolve it?
any URL?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>
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> Subject: [PATCH v11 17/17] OfmvPkg: CI: Qemu tests: set CPU to Broadwell
> 
> Work around a bug in Ovmf that causes Ovmf to crash on startup
> when running in recent versions of Qemu.  Setting the cpu model
> to something older, for example "Broadwell" works around the issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>
> ---
>  OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py
> b/OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py
> index bfef9849c749..93f7d7aa13d6 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py
> @@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ class PlatformBuilder( UefiBuilder,
> BuildSettingsManager):
>          cmd = "qemu-system-x86_64"
>          args  = "-debugcon stdio"                                           # write messages to
> stdio
>          args += " -global isa-debugcon.iobase=0x402"                        # debug
> messages out thru virtual io port
> +        args += " -cpu Broadwell"                                           # workaround Qvmf
> bug
>          args += " -net none"                                                # turn off network
>          args += f" -drive file=fat:rw:{VirtualDrive},format=raw,media=disk" #
> Mount disk with startup.nsh
> 
> --
> 2.39.0