SeaBIOS July 2013

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[ANNOUNCE] SeaBIOS 1.7.3
by Kevin O'Connor 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

The 1.7.3 version of SeaBIOS has now been released. For more information on the release, please see: http://seabios.org/Releases New in this release: * Initial support for using SeaBIOS as a UEFI Compatibility Support Module (CSM) * Support for detecting and using ACPI reboot ports. * By default, all 16bit entry points now use an internal stack to reduce stack footprint. * Floppy controller code has been rewritten to improve compatibility. Non-standard floppy sizes now work again with recent QEMU versions. * Several bug fixes and code cleanups For information on obtaining SeaBIOS, please see: http://seabios.org/Download

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Next release
by Kevin O'Connor 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

As previously discussed, I'll be generating the next seabios release in the next couple of days. If there are any outstanding defects that need to be addressed in this release, please let me know. -Kevin

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[PATCH v5 0/7] support for ACPI memory hotplug
by Hu Tao 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

This series adds memory devices and related methods to support ACPI memory hotplug. This series works with qemu counterpart. See qemu series for a detailed description. Hu Tao (2): set psize to 0 when romfile_loadfile failed acpi: generate hotplug memory devices Vasilis Liaskovitis (5): Add ACPI_EXTRACT_DEVICE* macros Add SSDT memory device support acpi-dsdt: Implement functions for memory hotplug q35: Add memory hotplug handler pci: Use paravirt interface for pcimem_start and pcimem64_start Makefile | 2 +- src/acpi-dsdt-mem-hotplug.dsl | 57 ++++++++++++++++ src/acpi-dsdt.dsl | 5 +- src/acpi.c | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- src/paravirt.c | 15 +++++ src/paravirt.h | 1 + src/pciinit.c | 9 +++ src/q35-acpi-dsdt.dsl | 6 +- src/romfile.c | 13 ++-- src/ssdt-mem.dsl | 61 +++++++++++++++++ tools/acpi_extract.py | 28 ++++++++ 11 files changed, 333 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) create mode 100644 src/acpi-dsdt-mem-hotplug.dsl create mode 100644 src/ssdt-mem.dsl -- 1.8.3.1

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Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Seabios: allow mapping of multiple PCI option ROMs to one
by Dave Frodin 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

Kevin, Did you ever get a chance to look over this patch? Thanks, Dave ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Frodin" <dave.frodin(a)se-eng.com> > To: "Kevin O'Connor" <kevin(a)koconnor.net> > Cc: "seabios" <seabios(a)seabios.org> > Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 8:45:11 AM > Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Seabios: allow mapping of multiple PCI option ROMs to one > > Kevin, > > Attached is the new option rom mapping patch. > I was hunting around for an existing SeaBIOS ftn that would convert > ascii strings to a binary value (i.e. sscanf) but couldn't find one. > If there's already one in the code I can replace the text_to_binary() > with it. > > I tested this on a AMD family14 platform. The vendev-map file I added > to CBFS looks like this... > > 10029803-10029802 > 10029804-10029802 > 10029805-10029802 > 10029806-10029802 > 10029807-10029802 > 10029808-10029802 > 10029809-10029802 > > Each line ends with a NEWLINE character (0x0A). > > On my test platform the actual graphics ID of the part is 10029804. > The vgabios gets added to CBFS with the name "pci1002,9802.rom". > > Thanks, > Dave > _______________________________________________ > SeaBIOS mailing list > SeaBIOS(a)seabios.org > http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios >

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