[Pkg-libvirt-commits] [libguestfs] 30/266: aarch64: Add comment about efi-rtc=noprobe option.

[Hilko Bengen]

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bengen pushed a commit to annotated tag debian/1%1.27.35-1
in repository libguestfs.

commit d682dad1864ef3b3353f1521098466459df97ca3
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 23 13:08:49 2014 +0100

    aarch64: Add comment about efi-rtc=noprobe option.
    
    This updates commit 5326689d50cc82e9108c83511e666be6d081d9dd.
---
 src/launch.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/launch.c b/src/launch.c
index cb69b08..18c0feb 100644
--- a/src/launch.c
+++ b/src/launch.c
@@ -344,6 +344,12 @@ guestfs___appliance_command_line (guestfs_h *g, const char *appliance_dev,
      " " SERIAL_CONSOLE /* serial console */
 #ifdef __aarch64__
      " earlyprintk=pl011,0x9000000 ignore_loglevel"
+     /* This option turns off the EFI RTC device.  QEMU VMs don't
+      * currently provide EFI, and if the device is compiled in it
+      * will try to call the EFI function GetTime unconditionally
+      * (causing a call to NULL).  However this option requires a
+      * non-upstream patch.
+      */
      " efi-rtc=noprobe"
 #endif
      " udevtimeout=6000"/* for slow systems (RHBZ#480319, RHBZ#1096579) */

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