[pve-devel] [PATCH qemu] revert commit breaking VirtIO network adapters for certain versions of Windows

Fiona Ebner f.ebner at proxmox.com
Fri Nov 17 11:45:41 CET 2023


As reported in the community forum [0] and reproduced locally this
breaks VirtIO network adapters in (at least) the German ISO of Windows
Server 2022. The fix itself was for

> Issue is not fatal but as result acpi-index/"PCI Label ID" property
> is either not shown in device details page or shows incorrect value.

so revert and tolerate that as a stop-gap, rather than have the
devices not working at all.

[0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/92094/post-605684

Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
---
 ...workaround-Windows-not-handling-name.patch | 45 +++++++++++++++++++
 debian/patches/series                         |  1 +
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 debian/patches/extra/0008-Revert-x86-acpi-workaround-Windows-not-handling-name.patch

diff --git a/debian/patches/extra/0008-Revert-x86-acpi-workaround-Windows-not-handling-name.patch b/debian/patches/extra/0008-Revert-x86-acpi-workaround-Windows-not-handling-name.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02d9b6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/extra/0008-Revert-x86-acpi-workaround-Windows-not-handling-name.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
+Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:18:06 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Revert "x86: acpi: workaround Windows not handling name
+ references in Package properly"
+
+This reverts commit 44d975ef340e2f21f236f9520c53e1b30d2213a4.
+
+As reported in the community forum [0] and reproduced locally this
+breaks VirtIO network adapters in (at least) the German ISO of Windows
+Server 2022. The fix itself was for
+
+> Issue is not fatal but as result acpi-index/"PCI Label ID" property
+> is either not shown in device details page or shows incorrect value.
+
+so revert and tolerate that as a stop-gap, rather than have the
+devices not working at all.
+
+[0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/92094/post-605684
+
+Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
+---
+ hw/i386/acpi-build.c | 8 ++------
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/hw/i386/acpi-build.c b/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
+index bb12b0ad43..de14d3c3da 100644
+--- a/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
++++ b/hw/i386/acpi-build.c
+@@ -362,13 +362,9 @@ Aml *aml_pci_device_dsm(void)
+     {
+         Aml *params = aml_local(0);
+         Aml *pkg = aml_package(2);
+-        aml_append(pkg, aml_int(0));
+-        aml_append(pkg, aml_int(0));
++        aml_append(pkg, aml_name("BSEL"));
++        aml_append(pkg, aml_name("ASUN"));
+         aml_append(method, aml_store(pkg, params));
+-        aml_append(method,
+-            aml_store(aml_name("BSEL"), aml_index(params, aml_int(0))));
+-        aml_append(method,
+-            aml_store(aml_name("ASUN"), aml_index(params, aml_int(1))));
+         aml_append(method,
+             aml_return(aml_call5("PDSM", aml_arg(0), aml_arg(1),
+                                  aml_arg(2), aml_arg(3), params))
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index c27c245..ad84088 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ extra/0004-migration-block-dirty-bitmap-fix-loading-bitmap-when.patch
 extra/0005-hw-ide-reset-cancel-async-DMA-operation-before-reset.patch
 extra/0006-Revert-Revert-graph-lock-Disable-locking-for-now.patch
 extra/0007-migration-states-workaround-snapshot-performance-reg.patch
+extra/0008-Revert-x86-acpi-workaround-Windows-not-handling-name.patch
 bitmap-mirror/0001-drive-mirror-add-support-for-sync-bitmap-mode-never.patch
 bitmap-mirror/0002-drive-mirror-add-support-for-conditional-and-always-.patch
 bitmap-mirror/0003-mirror-add-check-for-bitmap-mode-without-bitmap.patch
-- 
2.39.2






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