[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH 3/6] bios_date: Change BiosDate to SMBIOS bios date

[Gerd Hoffmann]

Hi,
> > The thing is, if the date reported by smbios tables is 05/02/2015 (which is
> > bigger than 04/01/2014) so:
> > If smbios tables are in fseg - Windows will select the most recent date - 05/02/2015
> > If not - Windows will select the most recent date (the only one it found) -  04/01/2014
> >
> > So 'char win_bios_date[] VARFSEG = " 04/01/2014 “‘ will not help.
>
> Why would the smbios tables have a newer date?  If you mean that qemu
> is providing smbios table 0 and its date is newer,

qemu doesn't provide table 0 (by default, possibly there is a obscure
command line switch to change that), so seabios will generate it and the
two dates should match.

I kind of fail to see the problem the patch series tries to solve ...

cheers,
  Gerd