On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 07:34:28PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
Am 20.06.24 um 19:29 schrieb Kevin O'Connor:
Some possible alternatives:
We could do nothing for now and continue to gauge how much of a problem this is.
We could revert 96a8d130, and go back to explicit qemu hints for pci hotplug users that need large mappings.
Are there other possibilities or other heuristics?
I know SeaBIOS does not promise anything regarding the version number, but maybe reverting the change and releasing 1.16.4, and then applying the change and increasing the number to 1.17 with a big note/warning in the announcement would lessen the impact of the change..
Thanks. It seems an improved work around for the underlying issue was found, so I'm not sure we need to revert the existing heuristic.
That said, I think we probably should plan a v1.17.0 release.
Cheers, -Kevin