[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Time to cut a new release?

[Marc Jones]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:10:10PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 08/04/2011 01:49 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >A bunch of new stuff has been added to master since the last version,
>> >time to release a new one? Especially I'd like to see qemu get a seabios
>> >update, and anthony prefers a release instead of a git snapshot for that.
>>
>> What's left in order to enable CONFIG_AHCI by default too?  I'd
>> really prefer not to carry a custom config for QEMU if it's
>> possible.
>
> I'm okay with defaulting AHCI on.  The 32bit trampolining could
> theoretically be a problem, but there have been no trouble reports to
> date.
>
>> Maybe this is a good time to coordinate a release around the next
>> QEMU release too.  I'm guessing that October would be a pretty good
>> time to freeze on a new SeaBIOS so if there was an October release,
>> that would work very well for us.
>
> I'm okay with that.  We could probably arrange a release even sooner.

I think that AHCI on would be good. What about ATA DMA and ATA 32bit PIO?

Marc


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