Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-stable] problems with freeBSD

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 03/08/13 08:47, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > FWIW I find the binaries in git to be a PITA. I submitted a patch in
> > January to fix the VGA BIOS but it's still broken in git. The one
> > installed in /usr/share/qemu is fine, but whenever I build qemu from git
> > I have to remember to *remove* the one in the git tree or it uses that
> > instead...
>
> Wasn't that a fix for the SeaBIOS VGA BIOS?  The one in qemu.git is
> still built from the Bochs VGA BIOS.
>
> Last year, malc blocked the switch on the lack of protected mode
> interface in SeaVGABIOS.

Fedora switched though, so the distro binaries in /usr/share/qemu are
the seavgabios ones.

"make -C roms seavgabios" in the qemu source tree will upgrade the blobs
in pc-bios/.

cheers,
  Gerd