[ANNOUNCE] SeaBIOS 1.7.1

[Kevin O'Connor]

The 1.7.1 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 booting from USB attached scsi (USB UAS) drives
* USB EHCI 64bit controller support
* USB MSC multi-LUN device support
* Support for booting from LSI SCSI controllers on emulators
* Support for booting from AMD PCscsi controllers on emulators
* New PCI allocation code on emulators.  Support 64bit PCI bars and mapping them above 4G.
* Support for non-linear APIC ids on emulators.
* Stack switching for 16bit real mode irq handlers to reduce stack footprint.
* Support for custom storage in the memory at 0xc0000-0xf0000.  No longer reserve memory for custom storage in first 640k.
* Improved code generation for 16bit segment register loads
* Boot code will now (by default) reboot after 60 seconds if no boot device found
* CBFS and FWCFG "files" are now only scanned one time
* Several bug fixes

For information on obtaining SeaBIOS, please see:

http://seabios.org/Download

[Fred .]

Great to see a new release out! :)

Now lets merge some new stuff! :D

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Kevin O'Connor  wrote:
> The 1.7.1 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 booting from USB attached scsi (USB UAS) drives
> USB EHCI 64bit controller support
> USB MSC multi-LUN device support
> Support for booting from LSI SCSI controllers on emulators
> Support for booting from AMD PCscsi controllers on emulators
> New PCI allocation code on emulators.  Support 64bit PCI bars and mapping them above 4G.
> Support for non-linear APIC ids on emulators.
> Stack switching for 16bit real mode irq handlers to reduce stack footprint.
> Support for custom storage in the memory at 0xc0000-0xf0000.  No longer reserve memory for custom storage in first 640k.
> Improved code generation for 16bit segment register loads
> Boot code will now (by default) reboot after 60 seconds if no boot device found
> CBFS and FWCFG "files" are now only scanned one time
> Several bug fixes
>
> For information on obtaining SeaBIOS, please see:
>
> http://seabios.org/Download
>
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