[SeaBIOS] Advise on updating SeaBIOS in stable

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Jan 14 11:27:35 CET 2010


   Hi,

>> If you're looking to pull in 32bit pcibios support, then I don't think
>> it would be worthwhile to rebase to a stable branch, as the 32bit
>> pcibios support is easily the biggest user visible change in v0.5.1
>> (in the sense that Linux will call 32bit pcibios if it's available).
>
> Unless there's a strong demand for it, I'd like to hold off on 32bit
> pcibios support.

I think someone mentioned bochs-based pcbios in qemu 0.11 has 32bit 
pcibios support, so not having that in 0.12 would be a regression. 
Dunno how much this is a problem in practice though.

cheers,
   Gerd



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