[vfio-users] Guest freezes upon GPU passthrough

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On Nov 12, 2015 8:45 PM, "arch user" <archuser at gmx.com> wrote:
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> > There is a possibility that the broken ROM freezes the machine when
loaded since it is corrupted.
>
> The ROM looks fine. See below. I'm confused why the kernel reports it's
invalid.
>
> Perhaps it fails to read it properly?
>
>   /* Standard PCI ROMs start out with these bytes 55 AA */
>   if (readb(image) != 0x55) {
>     dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Invalid ROM contents\n");

If it fails to read it for some weird reason, you can force the emulated
ROM via romfile option instead of figuring out why the kernel is unable to
read it.
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