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

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 04:59:44PM -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
> 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?

ATA DMA caused me a bit of pain this morning, it didn't want to work.

32-bit PIO is probably mostly-safe these days.

	Jonathan Kollasch