Re: riscv64 virt board crash upon startup

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 7/9/23 13:25, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> This is with QEMU v8.1.0-391-gc152379422a2.
>
> I use the command line from (scroll to the bottom):
>
>    https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/49f06b664018
>
> (with "-full-screen" removed).
>
> The crash is as follows:
>
>    Unexpected error in object_property_find_err() at 
> ../../src/upstream/qemu/qom/object.c:1314:
>    qemu: Property 'qemu-fixed-text-console.device' not found
>    Aborted (core dumped)

Cc'ing Marc-André for commit b208f745a8
("ui/console: introduce different console objects")

> (Full backtrace attached.)
>
> If I replace the "-device virtio-gpu-pci" option with "-nographic", then
> there is no crash; QEMU launches fine and the guest starts booting fine.
>
> I think this is a board-related problem; the riscv virt board code
> likely does not set up the console properly.
>
> Furthermore, I reckon this could be regression. When Sunil's above patch
> was committed to edk2 (2023-06-23), the graphical guest window must have
> worked still.
>
> Laszlo