[ANNOUNCE] Seabios 0.5.0

[Kevin O'Connor]

SeaBIOS 0.5.0 has just been tagged.

This release synchs the SeaBIOS tip with qemu in preparation for the
qemu-0.12.0 release.

The main SeaBIOS repo is available with:

git clone git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/kevin/seabios.git

Precompiled binaries and source packages are also available at:

http://linuxtogo.org/~kevin/SeaBIOS/

Major changes since the last release (0.4.3):

* Import of many features needed by kvm and qemu.

* The default is now to extract option roms from PCI and from qemu
  fw_cfg interface.  Users of bochs and earlier versions of qemu must
  now set CONFIG_OPTIONROMS_DEPLOYED=1 in src/config.h.

* The bios can now be larger than 64K.  (If the bios is over 64K, it
  will extend into the e-segment.)

* Support for "threading" of hardware initialization which can speed
  up boot times when seabios is used with coreboot.

* Initial support for USB keyboards.

* Lots of bug fixes and code cleanups.

-Kevin

[Peter Stuge]

Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> SeaBIOS 0.5.0 has just been tagged.

Cool!
> The default is now to extract option roms from PCI and from qemu
> fw_cfg interface.

Does this affect SeaBIOS operation on coreboot in any way?

Congrats on the release!

//Peter

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:08:07PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > The default is now to extract option roms from PCI and from qemu
> > fw_cfg interface.
>
> Does this affect SeaBIOS operation on coreboot in any way?

No.  The option CONFIG_OPTIONROMS_DEPLOYED now defaults to 0 - the
coreboot instructions have always advised setting that to 0.  In
effect, qemu is now more similar to coreboot.

-Kevin