[PATCH] arm: fix mach-versatile booting in qemu

[Rabin Vincent]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:16:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The versatile platform has not been able to boot in qemu since 2.6.34-rc2,
> because e388771 "ARM: Realview/Versatile: separate out common SP804
> timer code" changed the behavior of the versatile_set_mode function.
> 
> This restores the original way it worked until 2.6.34-rc1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
> I found this with git-bisect. I do not know wether the old behavior
> that this reverts to is sensible, but it's how both versatile and
> realview have been doing it since they first started using clockevents.
> 
> I also don't know if the same problem exists on actual versatile
> hardware or if it's really a qemu bug.

It's a QEMU bug.  It was fixed with this patch to QEMU:

http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg30785.html

Rabin