Hi,
The above is okay to me, but I'd like to get Gerd's comments as well, as I think he had some concerns the last time it came up.
I don't recall Gerd's comments from last time, but I think the case is that some combination will be unavoidably broken.
Yes, that is the problem. But there are both broken and fixed qemu versions in the wild and there is no reliable way to figure whenever qemu is broken or not.
So, fixing seabios and living with the breakage for some qemu versions is the only option we have. The problem should go away over time with people moving on to newer versions.
Lets merge it (with the improved comment).
cheers, Gerd